Sentences with phrase «terrestrial radiation»

For example, snow is highly reflective for solar radiation but highly absorbing (and therefore emitting) for terrestrial radiation.

Greenhouse Gas Those gaseous constituents of the atmosphere, both natural and anthropogenic, that absorb and emit radiation at specific wavelengths within the spectrum of terrestrial radiation emitted by the Earth's surface, the atmosphere itself, and by clouds.

With an atmosphere that can absorb terrestrial radiation the surface radiation is absorbed in the atmosphere and some of it is re-emitted back to the surface.

Do they act to cool the earth by intercepting and reflecting solar energy, or to warm it by reducing outgoing terrestrial radiation?

but long - wave terrestrial radiation emitted by the warm surface of the Earth....».

The IPCC model suggests that the heat and latent energy exchange between the underlying surface and the atmosphere is a direct response to the imbalance of solar energy and terrestrial radiation at the surface.

If you accept diurnal variation as a proxy for net absorption, since the quantum mechanical effect of absorption is to heat the air, then you can see from Fig. 2 that most of the net absorption occurs below 850 mb and that above 500 mb the tiny amount of net absorption slowly increases showing that it is the result of the absorption of solar not terrestrial radiation.

Figures 21 and 22 of «The greenhouse effect and the spectral decomposition of the clear - sky terrestrial radiation» by Miskolczi and Mlynczak compares the various ways to calculate the ground temp and skin temp, and at first sight, adding the extra exp -LRB-- tau) really seems to improve things.

A strong positive feedback mechanism is the accompanying increase of moisture, which is an even more powerful absorber of terrestrial radiation.

3 Greenhouse Effect Key Factors Earth - Sun Temperature Differences Greenhouse Gas Concentrations The atmosphere is transparent to incoming solar radiation (short wave, high energy), outgoing terrestrial radiation (longer waves, lower energy) is absorbed by GHGs.

This gives the advantage that deep site detectors evade contamination of the signal from unwanted cosmic and terrestrial radiation and background noise.

Oxygen doesn't absorb at all in longwave — it is also (like nitrogen) transparent to terrestrial radiation.

We can say that nitrogen is transparent to solar and terrestrial radiation.

If the terrestrial radiation is being absorbed and warming the air, then it is not available to radiate upwards and downwards.

Radiative energy (solar and terrestrial radiation).

To see useful curves, the Min and Max wavelengths are different for solar radiation (about 6,000 K) and terrestrial radiation (about 300 K)- the buttons just make it easier to quickly get to the correct order of magnitude.

But it appears that aerosol effects on hurricane intensity are disproportionately stronger than their effects on the climate overall, because they reduce incoming sunlight while greenhouse gases act through longwave (infrared) terrestrial radiation, and changes in sunlight have a bigger influence on tropical cyclone intensity than changes in infrared radiation do.

Its circulation, the heat (terrestrial radiation) and light (solar radiation) which pass through it, and the processes which go on in it, all affect the climate.

His research has been closely aligned with the development of increasingly sophisticated satellite platform measurements, such as the terrestrial radiation budget, ozone and weather - related data, and the need for increasingly sophisticated atmospheric models to assess and evaluate the information content and utility of these measurements.

Melloni, in order to show that the laws of terrestrial radiation are the same in Italy as in countries where there is more political liberty, undertook these researches.»

The solar radiation is from a source of about 5800 K and centered on 0.5 μm, whereas the terrestrial radiation is from a source of around 288 K and centered on 10 μm.