What is the name given to heat radiated by the Earth?
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Energy radiated from Earth's surface as heat, or infrared radiation, is absorbed and re-radiated by greenhouse gases, impeding the loss of heat from our atmosphere to space. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere repeatedly absorb and re-radiate infrared radiation (heat).
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The heat radiated by the earth is called Infrared radiations.
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Continuous solar radiations are let out by the sun that reach the earth's surface either getting absorbed or re-radiated into the atmosphere and is called long-wave radiation. Although it is invisible, we can still feel the heat.
The re-radiated heat depends on a number of factors including:
- Concentration of greenhouse gases: The gases absorb and re-radiate the solar radiation, thereby increasing the earth's average temperature.
- The pattern and distribution of clouds: Thin and high clouds are cooler than the earth's surface thus, they absorb much of the heat. In contrast, thick and low clouds have a higher temperature and so they reflect most of the heat in this way they also contribute to the greenhouse effect.
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