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As radiation passes through Earth's atmosphere, some of it is absorbed and scattered by gases and particles. This can result in attenuation of the radiation, meaning that its intensity decreases. Different types of radiation are affected in various ways based on their energy and wavelength.
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What type o radiation passes most easily through earths atmosphere?
Visible light radiation passes most easily through Earth's atmosphere. This type of radiation includes the colors of the rainbow (RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO, VIOLET).
What kind of radiation passes through the atmosphere and reaches the earths surface?
Most of the visible light and some of the ultraviolet and infrared radiation from the sun pass through the atmosphere and reach the Earth's surface. Other forms of radiation, such as gamma rays and X-rays, are mostly absorbed by the atmosphere and do not reach the surface.
What is a trapping of energy from the sun by earths atmosphere?
The trapping of energy from the sun by Earth's atmosphere is called the greenhouse effect. Solar radiation passes through the atmosphere to heat the Earth's surface, which then emits infrared radiation. Some of this infrared radiation is trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide and water vapor, creating a warming effect that helps maintain Earth's temperature.
Does solar radiation keep the earth's lower atmosphere warm?
Yes, solar radiation plays a key role in heating Earth's lower atmosphere. Sunlight passes through the atmosphere, warming the surface of the Earth, which in turn heats the air above it. This process helps create the temperature gradient that maintains the Earth's lower atmosphere warm.
Visible and shortwave radiation heat Earth?
Yes it is. Visible light or Shortwave are radiation and it contain energy, when these radiation hit earth surface some fraction of radiation is absorb and transform from radiation energy to thermal energy.
How much of radiation from visible light waves is absorbed as the radiation passes through the atmosphere?
almost none the vast majority of visible light passes through the atmosphere.
What happens to the radiation as it passes through earth's atmosphere?
As radiation from the sun passes through Earth's atmosphere, it undergoes scattering and absorption by air molecules, water vapor, and aerosols. Some wavelengths, particularly ultraviolet (UV) radiation, are significantly absorbed by the ozone layer, protecting life on Earth. Visible light is mostly transmitted, allowing it to reach the surface. Overall, the atmosphere filters and moderates the amount of radiation that reaches the Earth's surface.
How much of the radiation from visible light waves is absorbed as the radiation passes through the atmosphere?
Roughly 20% of visible light radiation is absorbed as it passes through the Earth's atmosphere. The remaining percentage is either reflected back into space or reaches the Earth's surface. This absorption is influenced by factors such as cloud cover, aerosols, and gases in the atmosphere.
What type o radiation passes most easily through earths atmosphere?
Visible light radiation passes most easily through Earth's atmosphere. This type of radiation includes the colors of the rainbow (RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO, VIOLET).
Why is Earth's atmosphere mainly heated from the ground up?
Solar radiation mostly passes through the atmosphere without heating it, due to its wavelength. It does not pass through the ground, however, and it heats the ground. The ground emits radiation at a wavelength dependent on its temperature. This radiation happens to be in the thermal infrared part of the spectrum, or in other words, sensible heat. Therefore, the atmosphere is heated by the surface, whereupon the heat tends to rise and heat the lower atmosphere.
What happens to the energy provided by the sun as it passes through the atmosphere in the form of radiation?
As solar radiation passes through Earth's atmosphere, some of it is absorbed by gases, clouds, and particles in the atmosphere. The remainder reaches the Earth's surface, where it is absorbed and transformed into heat energy. This energy is essential for driving Earth's climate system and supporting life on the planet.
The lower atmosphere is directly warmed by?
By the emission of the terrestrial radiation. Terrestrial radiation is emitted in the infrared long-wavelength part of the spectrum. It is terrestrial radiation rather than solar radiation that directly warms the lower atmosphere.
The major portion of which form of solar radiation is absorbed as it passes through the atmosphere with only a tiny fraction of the original amount reaching the surface of the earth?
ground radiation
What happens to heat radiation when it neither passes through a material nor is reflected from it?
If heat radiation neither passes through a material nor is reflected from it, it is mostly absorbed by the material, leading to an increase in its temperature. This increase in temperature can result in the material emitting its own heat radiation in the form of infrared radiation.
What in the atmosphere has a uv ray from the sun?
Ultraviolet radiation from the sun passes through the atmosphere and reacts with plants, animals and the soil and water - unless it is absorbed by chemical reactions that it initiates in the upper atmosphere.
Why light is the one responsible for seeing?
Why that is no-one knows. But we would not have evolved without eyes sensitive to the type of radiation that passes easily through the atmosphere.
What kind of radiation passes through the atmosphere and reaches the earths surface?
Most of the visible light and some of the ultraviolet and infrared radiation from the sun pass through the atmosphere and reach the Earth's surface. Other forms of radiation, such as gamma rays and X-rays, are mostly absorbed by the atmosphere and do not reach the surface.
