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Wien’s law:

max wavelength per certain temperature. 2898/temp (micrometers)

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Planck’s law

energy flux per unit wavelength emitted. peak in visible light then go down

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Stefan-Boltzmann

total energy flux (across all wavelengths) vs temp. flux rises with temp

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Where is the atmospheric window and what does it do?

Atmosphere doesn’t absorb outgoing IR radiation around 10 micrometers, so the earth doesn’t heat up quite that much

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Incoming solar radiation

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How much radiation does earth emit

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how much radiation does the atmosphere reflect back

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how much outgoing LW radiation escapes the atmosphere + what does it balance

  1. incoming solar - albedo reflection

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how much incoming radiation does earth’s surface absorb

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what is recharge/discharge theory

idea of how to get out of el nino. heat accumulates in the east, is discharge polewards by geostrophic current. meridional heat transport

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black body

absorbs radiation perfectly

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gray body

absorbs radiation less efficiently than black body, with emissivity between 0 and 1

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