CHM310H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Chemical Polarity, Covalent Bond, Runaway Greenhouse Effect
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It"s the atmospheric layer: when it is emitting, there is no reason it shouldn"t emit it up or down. It only absorbs ir radiation, and not visible light. It is a bb, so the amount it absorbs, it is going to emit. going up, is also coming down: the radiations are also ir. The atmosphere may be cooler than the end of the ground, but not that cooler. Radiative equilibrium - ii: e in = e out ( for the planet) still has to be true. If we did this for the planet, we would be writing the same thing. But what would be changed in this scenario is: we would be solving for the temperature of the part of the atmosphere which emits energy back out of the place. They only see photons coming out of the atmospheric layer.
