Sentences with phrase «solar constant back»
So, in the experiment, they brought the solar constant back to current levels overnight.
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Each square meter of that area receives the Solar constant, S, but we reflect back a certain percentage, the albedo A. Thus power in is
Reconstructions of the solar constant exist going back 300 (Svalgaard) and 400 (Lean) years.
Clouds reflect sunlight back out to space, determining how much the climate system is heated by the near - constant incoming solar radiation.
Furthermore, since the energy of an individual photon is proportional to its frequency, the back - radiation... unlike solar radiation... can not be harnessed by photovoltaic devices, which rely on having photons of sufficient energy to cause electronic transitions (in particular, energies much larger than thermal energy of ~ kT where K is Boltzmann's constant).