Sentences with phrase «upward radiation from the atmosphere»

In concept, this claim is that downward radiation from the atmosphere minus upward radiation from the atmosphere = half the total planetary absorbed solar radiation.

Not exact matches

When the team looked at the overall balance between the radiation upward from the surface of the ice sheet and the radiation both upward and downward from the upper levels of the atmosphere across all infrared wavelengths over the course of a year, they found that in central Antarctica the surface and lower atmosphere, against expectation, actually lose more energy to space if the air contains greenhouse gases, the researchers report online and in a forthcoming Geophysical Research Letters.

This quantity represents the difference in the intensity of the long - and short - wave infrared radiation at these two wavelengths that travels upward from the atmosphere to the satellite, and it is traditionally used to differentiate between water and ice clouds.

He uses Kirchhoff's law and the two energy balances (ground to lower atmosphere, upper atmosphere to space) to derive the result: The long wave upward radiation from the surface is limited to 1.5 times the short wave downward radiation from the Sun.

The internal kinetic energy is taken as the upward long wave energy flux at the top of the atmosphere, and the potential energy is the upward radiation flux from the surface.

The pioneer was W.H. Dines, who gave the first explicit model including infrared radiation upward and downward from the atmosphere itself, and energy moved up from the Earth's surface into the atmosphere in the form of heat carried by moisture, Dines (1917); Hunt et al. (1986) gives a review.

Without the heat flow from the surface there would be no back radiation since it is the upward radiation, convection and heat conduction that are responsible for the heating of the atmosphere which, in turn, results in the emission of radiation by atmosphere.

On top of the ocean heating, we can look at the outgoing radiation from the atmosphere, by satellite, to see that frequencies associated with water vapor and CO2 have reduced upward emissions.

The surface provides «surface forward radiation» or «surface upward radiation» or «surface away - from - the - surface long - wavelength EM radiation» to the atmosphere (350 W / m).

You agree that SOME of the downward pointing radiation comes from the low reaches of the atmosphere but I am saying ALL of the downward radiation measurable at the surface is from the low reaches (just 10's of meters) EXCEPT (minus) that which can and does go upward to space and that is called the «window» frequencies upward IR radiation.

That is why I took the time to think of a definitive experiment of a Fresnel lens (here) to prove it, one way or the other, whether 324 ± Wm - 2 of downwelling radiation is actually and always flowing from the atmosphere down on the surface, or, is there merely a much smaller portion of radiation always flowing upward that you could focus and heat something with a lens looking downward.

Looking specifically at the exchange between surface and atmosphere, the radiation rates are 350 W / m ^ 2 up from surface to atmosphere and 324 W / m ^ 2 down from atmosphere to surface, for a net 26 W / m ^ 2 upward.

This just says that Solar radiation absorbed at the surface + downward atmospheric radiation = surface upward radiation + convection from the surface to the atmosphere.