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If it didn't, the Earth would keep getting hotter and hotter. We would have to find a way to get rid of some of the heat. As it is, we have roughly an energy balance where we retain about as much energy as leaves the system, and that keeps temperature roughly constant.
Just as the Earth's Nitrogen cycle and its Carbon cycle are cyclic, the Earth's Water Cycle is just that; Water Vapor returns to the Atmosphere to complete the Cycle.
the ozone layer keeps radiation and meteors away from earth
The most important are water vapors.
It protects us from harmful ultra violet radiation
The suns radiation hitting our atmosphere
The suns radiation hitting our atmosphere
The average solar radiation hitting the planet is considered to be about 352 watts/meter squared. Total radiation hitting our atmosphere is about 1366 watts/meter squared. The rest of this energy is absorbed or reflected by the atmosphere.
It deflects harmful radiation and keeps earth at livable temperatures.
If it didn't, the Earth would keep getting hotter and hotter. We would have to find a way to get rid of some of the heat. As it is, we have roughly an energy balance where we retain about as much energy as leaves the system, and that keeps temperature roughly constant.
Short wavelength radiation such as Ultraviolet fall to absorption spectrum band of Ozone. Ozone absorb UV and re-emitted the radiation in the range of infrared or thermal range radiation.
The earth's magnetic field is important in that it prevents the sun's solar radiation from killing life on earth by wiping out the earth's atmosphere and deflecting dangerous radiation.
Just as the Earth's Nitrogen cycle and its Carbon cycle are cyclic, the Earth's Water Cycle is just that; Water Vapor returns to the Atmosphere to complete the Cycle.
The Ionosphere absorbs radiation from space, without it there could be no life on Earth since the radiation would destroy DNA.
the ozone layer keeps radiation and meteors away from earth
The most important are water vapors.
Incident infrared radiation is blocked. Visible and ultraviolet radiation heat Earth. Earth radiates infrared radiation. Infrared radiation is blocked and heats Earth. Visible and shortwave radiation heat Earth.Earth radiates longwave radiationLongwave radiation is reflected downward Longwave radiation heats Earth