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The document discusses the greenhouse effect and how it impacts the Earth's temperature. It explains that solar radiation warms the Earth's surface to an average of -18°C. The Earth then emits infrared radiation, which greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane absorb and re-emit, both upward and downward. This trapped infrared radiation warms the lower atmosphere and surface, raising the average temperature to about 15°C. Measurements show increasing levels of greenhouse gases due to human activities are enhancing the greenhouse effect.

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The document discusses the greenhouse effect and how it impacts the Earth's temperature. It explains that solar radiation warms the Earth's surface to an average of -18°C. The Earth then emits infrared radiation, which greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane absorb and re-emit, both upward and downward. This trapped infrared radiation warms the lower atmosphere and surface, raising the average temperature to about 15°C. Measurements show increasing levels of greenhouse gases due to human activities are enhancing the greenhouse effect.

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The document discusses the greenhouse effect and how it impacts the Earth's temperature. It explains that solar radiation warms the Earth's surface to an average of -18°C. The Earth then emits infrared radiation, which greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane absorb and re-emit, both upward and downward. This trapped infrared radiation warms the lower atmosphere and surface, raising the average temperature to about 15°C. Measurements show increasing levels of greenhouse gases due to human activities are enhancing the greenhouse effect.

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Diation, The Gre Enhous e Efect Temper Ature of The Ear TH

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The document discusses the greenhouse effect and how it impacts the Earth's temperature. It explains that solar radiation warms the Earth's surface to an average of -18°C. The Earth then emits infrared radiation, which greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane absorb and re-emit, both upward and downward. This trapped infrared radiation warms the lower atmosphere and surface, raising the average temperature to about 15°C. Measurements show increasing levels of greenhouse gases due to human activities are enhancing the greenhouse effect.

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Solar Radiation, the Greenhouse Efect


and the Temperature of the Earth
To a large extent, the temperature of the
Earths surface is determined by the amount
of radiation received from the Sun.

Most of the incoming radiation from the Sun is


in the form of visible radiation.

Solar Radiation, the Greenhouse Efect


and the Temperature of the Earth
The atmosphere is mostly transparent to
incoming solar radiation, i.e., this radiation is
not absorbed by gases in the atmosphere,
with the notable exception of solar ultraviolet
radiation, which is absorbed by ozone mostly
located in the stratosphere.

Solar Radiation, the Greenhouse Efect


and the Temperature of the Earth
However, some
of the incoming
solar radiation is
reflected back to
space by clouds,
by ice and snow
at the poles, and
by desert areas.

Solar Radiation, the Greenhouse Efect


and the Temperature of the Earth
The surface of the Earth is heated by the
absorption of incoming solar radiation and
reaches a mean global temperature of about
18 C (0 F).
Once heated to the mean temperature, the
Earth emits radiation in the form of longwavelength, or infrared, radiation back to
space.

Solar Radiation, the Greenhouse Efect


and the Temperature of the Earth
Unlike incoming solar radiation, which is not
strongly absorbed by atmospheric gases and
passes through the atmosphere to the surface,
outgoing infrared radiation is strongly
absorbed by several diferent atmospheric
gases, including carbon dioxide, water vapor,
methane, nitrous oxide and ozone.

Solar Radiation, the Greenhouse Efect


and the Temperature of the Earth
Immediately after being absorbed by these
atmo spheric gases, the infrared radiation is
quickly reemitted or released back to the
atmosphere in both the upward and downward
directions.

Solar Radiation, the Greenhouse Efect


and the Temperature of the Earth
The downward component of the re-emitted
infrared radiation strikes the surface and causes
additional heating, increasing the mean
temperature of the Earth to about 15 C (59 F).
This additional heating is called the green
house efect and the gases that absorb and
then reemit infrared gases are called
greenhouse gases.

Solar Radiation, the Greenhouse Efect


and the Temperature of the Earth
Measurements show that atmospheric
concentrations of greenhouse gasescarbon
dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are
increasing with time most probably due to
human activities.
Atmospheric concentrations of water vapor
will increase as the temperature of the
atmosphere increases.

Solar Radiation, the Greenhouse Efect


and the Temperature of the Earth

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