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The radiation that passes through the atmosphere and reaches the earths surface has the greatest intensity in the form of?
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What is the function the atmosphere?
to trap heat from the sun to shield the planet from harmful radiation and to disintigrate space debris before it reaches the surface
What layer of the sun's atmosphere reaches farthest into space?
The layer of the sun's atmosphere that reaches farthest into space is called the Corona.
How does energy from the sun reaches us?
Radiation.
Most of the sun's energy reaches earth as?
Electromagnetic radiation.
What layer of atmosphere that reaches thousands of degrees?
ozone
What happens to most solar radiation when it reaches the surface of Earth what happens?
Most of the solar radiation is absorbed when it reaches the surface of the earth. Some of the solar radiation is also absorbed in the atmosphere.
Why doesn't all radiation directed at earth reaches the surface?
It is absorbed by the atmosphere
What reaction occurs when ultraviolet radiation from the sun reaches the earth's atmosphere?
When UV reaches earth, it interacts with ozone. It both creates and depletes ozone.
What happens as solar radiation travels towards earth?
Some is absorbed by molecules in the atmosphere (such as ultraviolet absorption by ozone), some is absorbed on the surface, and some is reflected by clouds or the surface back into space. The surface will re-radiate much of the absorbed solar radiation as infrared (thermal) radiation, and some of this is then absorbed by atmospheric gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
What percentage of solar radiation reaches the earth and drives the hydro logic cycle?
About 50% of the incoming solar radiation reaches the surface of the planet. The rest is reflected or absorbed by the atmosphere & clouds, and a small portion is reflected by the oceans and land.
Why does the heat that reaches the earth contain less harmful rays?
Some of the most harmful radiation does not make it through the Earth's atmosphere.
What the function of the atmosphere?
to trap heat from the sun to shield the planet from harmful radiation and to disintigrate space debris before it reaches the surface
What is the function the atmosphere?
to trap heat from the sun to shield the planet from harmful radiation and to disintigrate space debris before it reaches the surface
How much of the incoming solar radiation that reaches the upper atmosphere is immediately reflected back to space?
Six percent is immediately reflected by the atmosphere.(Source: NASA.See the related question below.)
The lower atmosphere is directly warmed from?
It's warmed from the surface. Shortwave radiation passes through the atmosphere, or at least about half of it, where it reaches the ground and is absorbed. The ground re-emits it at a longer wavelength, thereby warming the lower atmosphere.
How does heat from the sun reach you?
Heat from the sun reaches you from radiation.
What kind of radiation passes through the atmosphere and reaches the earths surface?
highlight factors which show that heat from the sun does reach th earth surface by convection
