Well, since in equilibrium we need to balance things, we need
the total radiation out to equal the radiation in,
Not exact matches
The gauntlet Juno ran at Jupiter held many chances for catastrophe: The spacecraft might have been knocked
out by intense magnetic fields (at that distance, 20 times stronger than Earth's), ionizing
radiation (a
total dose of 265 rads — more than enough to kill a human being), dust particles from Jupiter's rings (from which the main engine was completely unshielded) or loss of power if the solar arrays were unable to reorient to the sun.
«They get a lot more ultraviolet light
radiation in
total than people who don't [go tanning], even more than people who spend a lot of time
out in the sun,» says Dr. Olbricht.
Not much was said about the other three channels, Band A the
total radiation channel
out to 100 microns, Band B which monitors the
total solar light reflected from the earth (albedo) and Band C which captures the NIR solar reflected
out to 4 microns.
Eventually the surface reaches a point where it emits enough IR that the half making it
out into space balance the
total amount of incoming SW and LW
radiation.
We can see
radiation only accounts for a small portion over the tropical oceans — about 40W / m2
out of 200w / m2
total.
The fact that there has been almost no tropical tropospheric warming also rules
out an increase in TSI (
total solar
radiation) as the cause of the warming, in addition to the fact that TSI has not significantly increased.
Electrons jumping orbitals and producing
radiation don't know if there is a warmer or colder body
out there somewhere, therefore the
total instantaneous
radiation from any body is independent of the temperature of the surroundings.
But reactors» impact on the
total radiation levels is minute, as Barry pointed
out.