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How do greenhouse gases react to incoming solar radiation and outgoing heat?
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What is the phenomenon in which carbon dioxide and other gases trap solar radiation in the atmosphere?
Greenhouse effect.
How does the greenhouse effect influence the amount of incoming solar radiation?
Some radiation may be blocked or filtered or scattered by clouds, but most of it will pass right through clouds. To answer this question, it's best to know that clouds consist of dust particles, water molecules and a number of gas molecules. This collection of matter is much more condensed than usual gases and that is why they stand out in the sky. So, light and radiation from the sun comes in waves. These waves travel extreme distances to reach the Earth, but the majority of them won't reach the Earth because they reflect and refract through other substances. The matter in clouds has the same effect, they reflect and scatter the radiation from the sun. So, the answer to the question, "Do clouds block the sun's radiation?" would be yes.
Can infrared light get through Earth's atmosphere?
Yes, some of it can. Infrared radiation is trapped by greenhouse gases, but not all of it is trapped. These gases only trap radiation in very specific parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, so there are "windows" where it can escape.
Which gases in the atmosphere trap the sun's warmth?
greenhouse gasesThe main greenhouse gases are water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane.
How does atomospheric composition affect air temperature?
While the specifics of this are controversial, the generally held beliefs are that greenhouse gases cause air temperature to rise. The primary greenhouse gases in earth's atmosphere are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ozone. For an extreme view of how greenhouse gases can affect temperature, do some research on Venus where greenhouse gases and the proximity to the sun have turned the planet into a furnace
What is the greenhouse gas that absorbs the sun's incoming shortwave radiation?
No greenhouse gas absorbs the sun's incoming shortwave radiation. All the greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide, CFCs etc) absorb the outgoing longwave infrared radiation from the warmed surface of the earth.
What do you call gases that are good absorbers of outgoing radiation?
Greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, water vapour, methane, etc.
What type of radiation is in the atmosphere due to greenhouse gases?
There is no radiation (Alpha particles, Beta particles, Gamma rays) related to Greenhouse Gases. There is some conversion of lsolar energy to thermal radiation (heat)
Are oxygen and carbon dioxide referred to as respiratory gases?
Yes. The O2 is incoming, and the CO2 is outgoing.
What do greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb and retain?
Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb and retain infrared radiation (heat) from the surface of the earth.
What natural greenhouses gases are associated with the greenhouses effect?
A greenhouse gas is a gas in the atmosphere that takes in and releases radiation. The greenhouse effect is more of a process in which radiation is emitted in different directions after being absorbed by greenhouse gases.
What is the effect in which gases in the atmosphere convert absorbed radiation into heat?
Greenhouse!
Why does increasing the amount of a greenhouse gas increase the temperature of a planet?
The greenhouse gases reflect to the Earth the infrared radiation.
Greenhouse gases can stop the transmission of this type of ray.?
Greenhouse gases stop the transmission of infrared rays. These are the rays which carry heat away from the earth, and therefore an increase in greenhouse gases results in global warming.
What is caused by gases in the atmosphere that absorb radiation and transfer heat?
greenhouse effect
What gases such as co2 and water vapor absord the sun radiation and reflect it back to earth's surface?
Greenhouse gases.
How does long wavelength radiation contribute to the greenhouse effect?
The trapping by the greenhouse gases of the long wavelength radiation (infrared) leads to more heating and a higher resultant temperature.
