Overview 6.1 Atmospheric Radiation: Why does it matter? 6.2 Start at the Source: Earth Rotating Around the Sun 6.3 How is energy related to the wavelength of radiation? 6.4 The Solar Spectrum 6.5 What is the origin of the Planck Function? 6.6 Which wavelength has the greatest spectral irradiance? 6.7 What is the total irradiance of any object? 6.8 Kirchhoff’s Law explains why nobody is perfect. 6.9 Why do objects absorb the way that they do? 6.10 How much radiation is absorbed as radiation passes through matter? 6.11 What happens when we have both absorption and emission in the infrared? 6.12 What about scattering? Summary and Final Tasks Book traversal links for Lesson 6: Atmospheric Radiation ‹ Summary and Final Tasks Up Overview › Printer-friendly version