Sentences with phrase «terrestrial radiation emitted»

Not exact matches

Clouds play a very complicated first order role in scattering solar radiation as well as absorbing and emitting terrestrial radiation, again, the greenhouse effect.

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].

Otherwise, such a hypothesis does not even satisfy the First Law of Thermodynamics (basically, conservation of energy): Without substances in the atmosphere that absorb terrestrial radiation, the earth's surface at its present temperature would be emitting back out into space way more energy than it receives from the sun and hence would rapidly cool down.

In this case, what happens is the whole surface - atmospheric column is now receiving more (absorbed) solar radiation than it is emitting terrestrial radiation to space.