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Wien’s law:
max wavelength per certain temperature. 2898/temp (micrometers)
Planck’s law
energy flux per unit wavelength emitted. peak in visible light then go down
Stefan-Boltzmann
total energy flux (across all wavelengths) vs temp. flux rises with temp
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
Incoming solar radiation
342
How much radiation does earth emit
350
how much radiation does the atmosphere reflect back
324
how much outgoing LW radiation escapes the atmosphere + what does it balance
incoming solar - albedo reflection
how much incoming radiation does earth’s surface absorb
168
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
black body
absorbs radiation perfectly
gray body
absorbs radiation less efficiently than black body, with emissivity between 0 and 1
