Sentences with phrase «space via radiation»

The difference is that air molecules can release their energy to space via radiation.

Understanding how the earth and atmosphere cool to space via radiation is a critical component in understanding surface temperature changes.

Not exact matches

It was the first cosmic event in history to be witnessed via both traditional telescopes, which can observe electromagnetic radiation like gamma rays, and gravitational wave detectors, which sense the wrinkles in space - time produced by distant cataclysms.

CO2 reduces the rate at which the atmosphere loses its energy to space via infrared radiation, which in turn reduces the flow of energy from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere.

The only way heat can escape to space is via radiation because space is a void and therefore heat can not be transmitted by convection or conduction.

The major outflow of heat from the air is via radiation and convection (dry air being a very good insulator) The ocean loses energy to the air, which in turn, loses it, ultimately, into space.

A side point here is that the ocean loses heat by radiation to both the air (thanks to greenhouse gases) and to space, and to the atmosphere by direct conduction and this, via convection and radiation, ultimately to space.

Although radiation to space occurs over the whole planet there is a general movement of heat from equator to poles via the oceans and atmosphere.

A small localized change in surface temperature can cause a convection burst (thunderstorm) and a large increase in convection height, improving both reflection of incoming solar radiation, and conveying sensible heat to a higher altitude where it can then escape to space via radiative processes with far less interference.

Heat always moves from warmer to colder, so it must move, through whatever means, from the tropics to the arctic or, via radiation, to outer space.

That is determined by consideration of the absorption of the atmosphere of terrestrial radiation (and radiation emitted by the atmosphere), which essentially ends up determining at what altitude the temperature has to be determined via radiative balance between the Earth system (earth + atmosphere) and the sun and space [which for the earth system with its current albedo is ~ 255 K].

There may be convection and conduction within the atmosphere (up to about 10 Km as found by E. O. Hulburt in 1931), but between the Earth (including the atmosphere) and «space», heat is transferred via radiation since space is a vacuum (you need matter for conduction and convection, also shown by Hulburt in 1931).

It is possible to measure the infrared radiance in CO2 - band wavelengths via satellite from space, and at ground level for downwelling infrared radiation.