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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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and his colleagues report that instruments aboard the Earth Radiation Budget Satellite detected a 3.
The predecessor to CERES, the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE), showed that clouds are the dominant influence on the energy balance of the Earth.
A recent satellite study, conducted as part of the Earth Radiation Budget Experiment, indicates that clouds in general cool the Earth -- at least for the present (SN: 1/7/89, p.
 
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