Sentences with phrase «space at an equal rate»

Above all it must be constant because energy is also being radiated to space at an equal rate when the atmosphere is at equilibrium.

Not exact matches

Absorption of thermal radiation cools the thermal spectra of the earth as seen from space, radiation emitted by de-excitation is what results in the further warming of the surface, and the surface continues to warm until the rate at which energy is radiated from the earth's climate system (given the increased opacity of the atmosphere to longwave radiation) is equal to the rate at which energy enters it.

AGW space cadets find it difficult to understand this — that the planet emits in the IR at a rate that must ultimately be conditionally equal to the incoming energy.

I believe that if in the vacuum of space you place a blackbody object with (a) a constant (i.e., unchanging energy per unit time) internal thermal energy source, and (b) internal / surface thermal conduction properties such that independent of how energy enters the blackbody, the surface temperature of the blackbody is everywhere the same and you place that object in cold space (no background thermal radiation of any kind), eventually the object will come to a steady state condition — i.e., the object will eventually radiate energy to space at a rate equal to the rate of energy produced by the internal energy source.