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Cloud cover prevents IR radiation and light from escaping to space, preventing cooling by radiation.
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When does the earth receive less heat from the sun?
when earth absorbs the heat coming from the sunthere is too much moisture in the air3.when the clouds reflect the heat back to the space
What happens when clouds reflect heat back to the earth?
Some of it is reflected back into space.reflected heat does not warm the earth.we feel cooler
How clouds reflect heat to the Earth?
For a quick answer, here ya go: Heat radiating from the sun causes the water in the oceans to evaporate. This water vapor accumulates in the atmosphere creating more clouds. The clouds form sort of a blanket that reflects heat away from the earth's surface.
How do clouds help heat the earth?
Clouds don't really heat the Earth. Some clouds keep the Earth from losing heat. Heat is moved in different ways. One way is radiation. The Sun warms the Earth with radiated heat. But, the Earth also radiates heat. Clouds absorb some of the heat the Earth radiates and radiate it back to the Earth. If there are no clouds present all of the heat the Earth radiates go out into space and is lost.
What are two ways in which clouds affect Earth's climate?
The pattern of precipitation and low altitude clouds, which are thick and reflect more sunlight
Do high or low clouds heat the earth?
Clouds do not heat the earth though they can reduce heat radiating to space.
What effect do clouds have on weather?
Clouds are part of the weather process. The driving factor is not the clouds but the heat from the Sun. This said however, clouds are reflective and when these is a dense cloud cover less solar radiation hits the planets surface. They also tend to act like a blanket and reflect back any heat that the Earth is radiating.
What are two ways that clouds protect the earth?
They reflect light as well as heat. They also contain water which will become rain, wetting the land enabling life.
Do clouds slow the rate at which the Earth loses heat?
Clouds in our atmosphere has many functions which includes slowing the rate of heat loss. Regarding the question at hand, clouds slow down the rate of heat loss by absorbing heat emitted from the surface and re-radiating it back down to the surface. Cloud's basic role in climatology is to modulate Earth's basic radiation balance and to produce precipitation.
What helps heat to be trapped on the earth's surface?
the clouds
Sunlight passes through but does not heat the earth watercloudsor air?
it does not heat the clouds
What reflects heat back into space and traps heat near Earth?
Clouds and the atmosphere.
