Beginning in the 1960s, satellite instruments have measured Earth's reflected broadband shortwave radiation and emitted ...

The scalding Texas heat doesn't have to be a downer. Science shows you can bake cookies in a hot car, in three steps.

Overall, BMKG reports potential significant cloud growth across Indonesia over the next week. As mentioned in the Weekly ...

For two decades, CERES instruments have measured longwave radiation emitted by Earth. “It’s likely a mix of anthropogenic forcing and internal variability,” said Loeb. “And over this period they’re ...

Summer has arrived in Texas, once again inspiring the familiar tall tales of baking cookies in your car or frying an egg on the sidewalk. Although these stories are meant to illustrate how extreme ...

This heat is then emitted as longwave radiation, which cannot pass back through the glass. As a result, the heat becomes trapped, causing the car’s interior temperature to rise significantly.

With no solar rays to reflect, they trap long-wave radiation emitted by the ice and ocean below and reradiate it downward, warming the surface. “However, how well these mixed-phase clouds trap heat ...

Clouds have a complex relationship with radiation. This is seen with their influence on Earth’s radiation budget, the balance between incoming shortwave radiation from the Sun and outgoing longwave ...

When scientists discuss white surfaces like sea ice and snow reflecting solar energy, they are talking about short-wave radiation. By contrast, the Earth’s surface—its ice, snow, and land—emit ...

Journal Reference: Lei Liu, Yi Huang, John R. Gyakum. Clouds reduce downwelling longwave radiation over land in a warming climate. Nature, 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08323-x ...

Exposing blue zircon to long-wave ultraviolet (LWUV) radiation introduces a brown coloration, resulting in a somewhat unattractive, much less valuable gemstone. Common sources of accidental long-wave ...