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Why is only 50 percent of the solar energy that reaches the outer atmosphere absorbed by Earths surface?
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The Earth looks bright - thus much of the light reaching Earth is reflected back into space.
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What happens to the energy from the sun that is absorbs by earths surface?
Energy from the sun that is absorbed by the Earth's surface is reflected back into the atmosphere or absorbed by land and water and transformed into heat.
What happens when light hits a surface?
Depending on its darkness it is partially reflected and partially absorbed but if truly black it will all be absorbed and vice versa
How much light reaches Jupiter's surface?
Jupiter receives very little sunlight. About 5 Astronomical Unit (AU) or 1/25th the amount of sunlight that the Earth receives, reaches the surface of Jupiter.
Is a lake one result of the water table reaching the surface?
Yes. Rivers, lakes, and springs occur when the water table reaches the surface.
What is the layer below the atmosphere?
Troposphere it is. It is the closest to the earth's surface.
Most solar energy that reaches earth's atmosphere is absorbed by whtat?
absorbed by earth's surface
What percentage of the suns energy that reaches the earth is absorbed by earth surface?
About 50 percent of the Sun's incoming energy is absorbed by the Earth's surface. In addition, about 9 percent is reflected.About 22 percent of the Sun's incoming energy is reflected by clouds and the atmosphere.About 19 percent of the Sun's incoming energy is absorbed by clouds and the atmosphere.
What percentage of the sun's energy that reaches earth is absorbed by the earth's surface?
About 50 percent of the Sun's incoming energy is absorbed by the Earth's surface. In addition, about 9 percent is reflected.About 22 percent of the Sun's incoming energy is reflected by clouds and the atmosphere.About 19 percent of the Sun's incoming energy is absorbed by clouds and the atmosphere.
Why doesn't all radiation directed at earth reaches the surface?
It is absorbed by the atmosphere
What happens to most of the sunlight that reaches Earth?
About 50% is absorbed by Earth's surface, about 25% is reflected by clouds, dust, and gases in the atmosphere, about 20% is absorbed by gases and particles in the atmosphere and about 5% is reflected by the surface back into the atmosphere. Also some absorbed energy is radiated back into the atmosphere.
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.
What percentage of the sun energy that reaches earth is absorbed by earth surface?
About 50 percent of the Sun's incoming energy is absorbed by the Earth's surface. In addition, about 9 percent is reflected.About 22 percent of the Sun's incoming energy is reflected by clouds and the atmosphere.About 19 percent of the Sun's incoming energy is absorbed by clouds and the atmosphere.
What percentage of the solar energy the reaches the outer atmosphere is absorbed at the earth's surface?
50%
What percentage of the solar energy the reaches the outer atmosphere is absorbed at the earths surface?
50%
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.
The atmosphere is heated chiefly by radiation emitted by Earth?
The atmosphere is heated chiefly by radiation from Earth's surface rather than by direct solar radiation because about 50 percent of the solar energy is absorbed at Earth's surface. 30 percent is reflected back to space. 20 percent is absorbed by clouds and the atmosphere's gases.
What three places does the water that reaches the surface of earth go?
Rainfall runoffs into a nearby body of water, is absorbed by the soil, or is transpired back into the atmosphere.
