Radiation balance
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Saved by 2 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2007-11-27
- Amandadouglas on 2007-11-30 - Tags radiation , solar
- Mollykim on 2007-11-27 - Tags links
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The radiation balance of the Earth system is an accounting of the incoming and
outgoing components of radiation
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radiant energy is unequally distributed over the Earth.
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Over a quarter of the available solar radiation at the top of the atmosphere is
reflected or scattered back to space by particulates and clouds before it
reaches the ground.
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one percent of the energy available at the top of the atmosphere is absorbed by
the surface as direct and diffuse solar radiati
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direct and diffuse shortwave radiation accounts for the total incoming solar
radiation or insolation (K↓).
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