EARTHSS 15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Black-Body Radiation, Background Radiation, Black Body
8 Nov 2016
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Solar vs terrestrial radiation and the bare rock climate model. Radiation: controls energy balance of earth, is all around us all the time, can be labeled. Or its name( ultra violet, visible, near infrared, infrared, microwave) Or by its wavelength ( e. g. micrometers) Review from last time: all matter with a temperature glows radiation energy, the idea of blackbody radiation yields a powerful law of nature. How much radiation energy is glowing based on t. T^4: txtxtxt: hotter things glow radiation at shorter wavelengths. Iclickeer quiz: in the following movie, the process of ____ allows us to see energy move from a person to a chair through the process of ___ The sun emits energy at a lot of wavelengths, some we feel warm us , most wwe see as visible light. Solar radiation has a peak intensities in the shorter wavelengths, dominant in the region we know as visible, but extends at low intensity into longwave regions.
