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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of reradiate.

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Examples

  • Yep, the greenhouse effect works because light in the visible spectrum passes through “greenhouse” gases, while reradiated infrared is absorbed.

    Matthew Yglesias » Green Roofs 2007

  • This does not require me providing you with a link†¦ follow the dotted line†¦ you burn oil†¦ chemical reaction releases CO2†¦ CO2 ascends to the upper atmosphere where it is trapped†¦ the sun†™ s energy enters the atmosphere, reflects off earth toward space and is absorbed and reradiated by CO2 back to Earth†¦ what don†™ t you understand?

    Think Progress » Fox Analyst: Global Warming is ‘Bogus…Dreamed Up by The Greens Because They Hate Industry’ 2006

  • Some of this thermal radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, including clouds, and reradiated back to Earth.

    Climate change FAQs 2008

  • Here is the deal: increaesed solar output leads to a uniform warming of the lower atmosphere — the sunlight is absorbed by the earth and reradiated in the infrared and partially absorbed by the atmosphere — the greenhouse effect.

    Think Progress » Rebuttal To Gore Movie, Enthusiastically Embraced By The Right, Grossly Distorts Scientific Facts 2006

  • A greenhouse effect is necessary to maintain the average surface temperature approximately 33 °C above the level that would result from an unimpeded reradiation of the absorbed insolation, and energy reradiated by the atmosphere is currently approximately 325 W/m2.

    Global material cycles 2007

  • Both of these transistions can be modeled to cause runaway heating, as the ice melts more land/water is revealed and the albedo changes and water vapor is a greenhouse gas and so high water vapor increases the IR reradiated back to Earth.

    The Swindle Complaint and Myles Allen « Climate Audit 2007

  • The increased CO2 is posited to act more as a barrier to reradiated light than incoming light.

    More on MBH Confidence Intervals « Climate Audit 2006

  • Glass transmits the high radiation from the sun that heats the water but stops the low-energy infrared radiation that is reradiated from the absorber.

    Chapter 15 1982

  • It was meant to answer the most fundamental question of climate science: what is the energy balance between solar radiation falling on Earth and reflected or reradiated energy?

    RealClimate 2009

  • It was meant to answer the most fundamental question of climate science: what is the energy balance between solar radiation falling on Earth and reflected or reradiated energy?

    RealClimate 2009

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