Talk:Earth's radiation balance

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What level is this at? At top-of-atmosphere there is no diffuse radiation. William M. Connolley 16:10, 21 December 2005 (UTC).[reply]

The title should be "Earth's Radiation Balance". Isn't that what's meant?

And what about some numbers. Start with a perfectly black, conductive sphere in the average solar flux at Earth orbit distance. How do you calculate the sphere temperature, and what is it? Then add Earth-like albedo - what is it now? Then add Earth-like longwave trapping - what is it now? How does that compare with the global average surface temperature? Why?

Then we could vary the trapping efficiency and demonstrate some basic radiation forcing calculations, like these - and cross reference Climate sensitivity. I think that is what many educated non-specialists are looking for on this topic, but not finding.

--Glen Fergus 02:54, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish version[edit]

There's quantification in there Balance radiativo terrestre--Feministo (talk) 07:11, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Earth's energy balance[edit]

"Earth's radiation balance is the equation" is not just an equation. The term describes Earth's energy budget and Earth's energy balance Prokaryotes (talk) 02:48, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Added and redirected content for Earth's energy balance Prokaryotes (talk) 03:21, 23 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Earth's energy budget[edit]

Seems like this should be merged into Earth's energy budget but I don't have time to work on it. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 22:10, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, maybe i do this later. prokaryotes (talk) 22:47, 20 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]