GEOG 2050 Chapter : GEOG 2050 CHAPTER 4 Notes
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Cloud albedo forcing - short wave radiation goes into could and is diffused down to the surface radiation at night from the ground goes upward but hits clouds and stops it from leaving, so temperature gets warmer. The assimilation of radiation by molecules of matter and its conversion from one. A portion of insolation bounces directly back into space without being absorbed . Cloud green house effect cloud at night is essentially a blanket. Long wave form of energy to another absorption. Radiation energy traveling through air or space methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide, cfcs, etc . ) 31% of the received energy is reflected back off and surface is absorbed. It is then converted by plants and photosynthesis or longwave radiation. Some of the long wave radiation emitted by the earth is absorbed by gases (co2, Clouds play a crucial role in the heating of the lower atmosphere. Type heat and thickness (water content and density)
