Questions tagged [atmospheric-radiation]

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What is radiation divergence?

What is radiation divergence, in the context of atmospheric physics? For example, the phrase is used in this paper.
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Flux density and albedo

To save the Earth, the surface of the Earth has been covered by silver foil. The foil has a albedo of 0.9. What is the flux density emitted from the surface of the Earth (assume temperature of 50 deg C)? So I thought I could use Stefan Boltzmann law…
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What is the intensity of terrestrial radiation?

I wanted to know what's is the intensity of terrestrial radiation? I mean the long wave radiation emitted by Earth & its atmosphere. As, I was differentiating between solar radiation and terrestrial radiation and intensity is the major thing to…
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