Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Global Warming (Gases and Particles (Well-mixed GHGs CO2 (CO2 increases …

- - - - Earth receives shortwave radiation from the sun (above infrared), but emits infrared (longwave) radiation.
  - - - Albedo
        Reflectivity of earth
      - Emissivity
        How much energy earth can emit
        
        Greenhouse effect
        Percent of outgoing longwave energy radiated back to earth
        G = (1 - e)
        
        Greenhouse Effect
        
        Absorption Spectra
        Greenhouse gases absorb a certain spectrum within earth's outgoing longwave radiation
        
        Greenhouse gases
        Water vapor (H2O)
        Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
        Methane (CH4)
        Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
        Ozone (O3)
        
        Water Vapor
        50% of greenhouse effect
        
        Clouds
        25% of earth's greenhouse effect
        
        Carbon Dioxide
        20% of earth's greenhouse effect
        Despite being 0.04% of atmosphere by mass
      - Insolation
        Shortwave incoming radiation
- - - - Feedback of CO2
        Increasing CO2 warms the atmosphere, which allows it to hold more water vapor, which in turn warms the atmosphere even more
    - - Similar timing
        All of the increases in these well-mixed GHGs began at the same time, indicating that humans are responsible
  - - - Sulfate Aerosols Effect
        
        Reflection of insolation (net cooling effect)
        
        Creation of fog and clouds, due to charged status
      - Sulfur Aerosols Regulation
        
        Decreasing with time, due to air pollutant status
    - - Black Carbon Effect
        
        Absorbs insolation (net warming effect)
    - - Aerosol Regulation
        
        Helping to improve air quality, but may actually increase warming