Sentences with phrase «solar radiation energy»

Nice theory, but, a large part of the UHI effect is retained heat from insolation (incoming solar radiation energy warming concrete etc) and, if no sun, no warmth... which in large part happened in Dallas Ft. Worth just recently with our record snow; and we had continuing overcast afterwards too.

Not exact matches

About 5 million tons of matter is converted by the Sun's core into energy every second, producing neutrinos and solar radiation.

As the solar absorber takes in more energy, its temperature increases, causing it to lose energy in the form of thermal radiation.

Solar radiation is the main energy source driving the earth's atmospheric system.

Chloroplasts alone absorb light only from the visible portion of the solar spectrum, allowing access to only about 50 % of the incident solar energy radiation, and less than 10 % of full sunlight saturates the capacity of the photosynthetic apparatus.

To understand — and eventually predict — which solar storms will intensify the radiation belts, scientists want to know where the energy that accelerates the particles comes from.

The findings should explain how the multicomponent aerosols affect clouds, solar radiation and ultimately the earth's global climate and energy balance.

Because the eclipse blocks energy from the sun, scientists can study the ionosphere's response to a sudden drop in solar radiation.

Likewise, these buildings in summer obtain energy gains through their south and west facades due to solar radiation.

How do you figure out what powers solar flares — the intense bursts of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots — when you must rely on observing only the light and particles that make their way to near - Earth's orbit?

Yet there is no doubt that research into atmospheric aerosols is becoming increasingly important due to the effects that they can have on the global temperature of Earth, given that solar radiation is the main source of energy for Earth - Atmosphere system.

For instance, UV radiation amounts to a mere 7 % of solar energy, but its variation produces changes in the stratosphere near the Equator, all the way to the polar regions, which govern climate.

Water (H2O) plus carbon dioxide (CO2) plus light energy (solar radiation) produces carbohydrates plus oxygen.

The dramatic data visualization of ions escaping Mars» atmosphere due to solar wind radiation, along with a display of energy of the escaping particles in a brown to white plume was cited for its impact, originality, execution and editorial relevance.

The Max Planck researcher and his colleague propose another change to the strategy for the Starshot project: instead of a huge energy - hungry laser, the Sun's radiation could be used to accelerate a nanoprobe beyond the solar system.

«The experiments confirm significant endurance gains are possible by leveraging thermal updrafts and incident solar radiation, rather than ignoring these free sources of energy,» Edwards said.

Few realize that our entire solar system is swinging through space passing through areas of greater or lesser energy fields from cosmic particles and background radiation.

The clouds affect the «global radiative balance» by reflecting solar energy or trapping terrestrial radiation.

Early Earth lacked an ozone layer to act as a shield against high - energy solar radiation, but microbes flourished by adapting to or finding other forms of protection from the higher ultraviolet radiation levels.

Surface radiative energy budget plays an important role in the Arctic, which is covered by snow and ice: when the balance is positive, more solar radiation from the Sun and the Earth's atmosphere arrives on the Earth's surface than is emitted from it.

As the comet orbits closer to the Sun, solar radiation — the energy that the sun gives out — begins to melt the nucleus and causes the volatile material and dust to come out.

Solar flares are brief, rapid bursts of high - energy radiation emitted by the sun.

From about 0.7 solar radii to the Sun's visible surface, the material in the Sun is not dense enough or hot enough to transfer the heat energy of the interior outward via radiation.

Climate is driven largely by energy from the sun, and the manner in which this incoming solar radiation is reflected, absorbed, transformed (as in photosynthesis), or re-radiated (as heat).

First, the total amount of solar radiation (TSI) can be varied — this changes the total amount of energy coming into the system and is very easy to implement.

I'd thus replace CDR / «Carbon Dioxide Removal» (unclear and unhelpfully prescriptive)-- with «Carbon Recovery»; and CCS / «Carbon Capture and Storage» (inaccurate)-- with «Carbon Dioxide Capture and Sequestration» [CDCS]; and SRM / «Solar Radiation Management» (both ambiguous and off - putting: can be read as intervening in the sun's energy production and needs the word «radiation» like a hole in the head)-- with «Albedo Restoration.»

With the current GHG content in the atmosphere, more solar energy arrives than leaves via radiation -LRB-.85 + / -.15 Watt / m ^ 2), which raises the heat content of the terrestrial system, i.e., the average temperature over the whole earth + oceans + atmosphere.

However, the other terms in the energy balance directly or indirectly affect the amount of absorbed solar radiation which is available for ablation.

Few realize that our entire solar system is swinging through space passing through areas of greater or lesser energy fields from cosmic particles and background radiation.

The bonds between two atoms in a molecule are particularly strong, and can only vibrate at very high frequencies (emphasize frequencies over energies) well above the frequency of infrared or the solar radiation spectrum.

We have satellites that are measuring the solar energy coming in and the heat radiation going out.

As the atmospheric opacity is increased (e.g., 2xCO2), the physical location of the TAU = 1 level will rise to a higher altitude, but the outgoing flux will still come from the TAU = 1 level since radiation doesn't care about the geometric scale), and the TAU = 1 level will still correspond to the same temperature (since the solar input energy is unchanged).

Unfortunately, for me, I have no idea of how human energy use compares to the amount of solar radiation that the Earth receives.

Allowing for that falling on the oceans, and further decline due to angle of incidence as distance from equator increases, less the amount required by vegetation for photosynthesis, we are left with how much energy for conversion of solar radiation to heat / electricity / catalytic reaction to other fuels?

The sun, which is quite hot (about 5800K), emits most of its energy at between 0.2 microns and 4 microns (solar or short wave radiation, or plain sunlight), while the Earth's surface emits the most energy at wavelengths between 5 and 50 microns (the so - called thermal Infrared region of the spectrum).

The imbalance is not between IR absorbed and IR emitted by a layer of atmosphere, but between the incoming shortwave solar energy from space and the outgoing longwave energy emitted to space, due to the increasing difference between the ground temperature and the temperature of the level from which re-emitted radiation can escape to space.

I have seen a statement that the outer edge of the earth's atmosphere receives approximately 14,000 x as much energy in solar radiation as we currently generate from fossil fuels.

To a good approximation, the Earth gets all its energy from the sun in the form of short - wave solar radiation (sun light).

It seems to me that a period where solar energy was entering and then quickly circulated into the depths would leave less IR radiation entering the atmosphere.

In radiative - convective equilibrium, the convergence of different energy fluxes (solar and LW radiation, summed over all frequencies, and convection / conduction / etc.)

The energy inputs to the surface are from absorption of solar radiation and absorption of downward infrared radiation.

In the context of global climate, absorbed solar radiation (about 240 W / m2, with 30 percent of the incident radiation being reflected back to space) is the energy source that keeps the Earth's surface warm.

But for an external solar forcing, the increase in incoming energy, causes increased convection, conduction and radiation, which results in increased energy out which results in a new higher energy - in equals energy - out.

Through appropriate building design, behavioural change and demand management (this does not mean living like a cave - man, just using resources efficiently) and appropriate matching of energy source with demand (i.e using solar radiation, not brown coal fired electricity for water heating), it is possible to eliminate these emissions completely.

On a side note, speaking of energy and learning from nature, (we must pay attention to nature) that same article discusses the discovery that the silk nests spun from the Pine Processionary caterpillars, trap solar radiation, heating them up to 100 degrees during the day.

Of course solar radiation is practically the entire energy input to the earth system.

Still dodging the simple question: If those 333W / m ² of backradiation are a real transfer of thermal energy, then why can't you collect it like you can collect the 161W / m ² of solar radiation?»

You're just dodging the question that you have never and can never answer: If those 333W / m ² of backradiation are a real transfer of thermal energy, then why can't you collect it like you can collect the 161W / m ² of solar radiation?»

You are on full tilt now that you endlessly dodge the question: If those 333W / m ² of backradiation are a real transfer of thermal energy, then why can't you collect it like you can collect the 161W / m ² of solar radiation?»

You're still dodging the simple question: If those 333W / m ² of backradiation are a real transfer of thermal energy, then why can't you collect it like you can collect the 161W / m ² of solar radiation?»