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radiation budget

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radiation budget [‚rād·ē′ā·shən ‚bəj·ət]
(geophysics)
A quantitative statement of the amounts of radiation entering and leaving a given region of the earth.


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To investigate additional mechanisms that may have enhanced and extended the effects of the Toba eruption, as well as the volcanic winter, Alan Robock and his team from Rutgers University, US, have conducted six climate model simulations using state-of-the-art models that include vegetation death effects on radiation budgets, and stratospheric chemistry feedbacks that might affect the lifetime of the volcanic cloud.
It also allows scientists to map the Earth's radiation budget to assess its impacts on climate and weather, and to assess Earth's gravity field to evaluate its role in ocean circulation and climate.
A widely accepted understanding ([2], chapter 9) is that the equation for the average radiation budget B at the top of the atmosphere B = I(1 - a) - F = 0, (1) where I is the incident solar flux, a is the albedo of the system earth--atmosphere, and F is the outgoing long wave radiation flux, can be used to estimate various feedbacks in the earth climate system.
 
 
 
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