Sentences with phrase «transparent water surface»

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Since the sea is pure only when it is deep, and is transparent only when it is pure, as soon as it is impure it is no longer deep but only surface water, and as soon as it is only surface water it is not transparent.

Dippers, which are equipped with a transparent second eyelid (think water goggles for birds), dive below the river's surface and walk the riverbed scouring the rocky floor for meals, mostly aquatic insects in their larval stage.

Visible light from the Sun can not physically heat land or water, and the Earth's surface is largely water, and, water is a transparent medium for visible light anyway.

Most of the remaining 82 % is radiated by water vapour molecules from various heights in the atmosphere (depending on wavelength) and the surface of the earth (particularly at wavelengths around 10 micron where the atmosphere is almost transparent).

So water can explained as same as atmosphere - sunlight is transparent to water, sunlight passes thru the water and heats the water under the surface, and heat generated is blocked from radiating IR.

This means that 63.3 % (248Wm - 2) of the 391Wm - 2 emitted as LWIR radiant energy from the surface is absorbed by water vapour in 120m of traverse and the remainder 140Wm - 2 leaves the atmosphere as it is transparent to it.