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.

The estimation of surface longwave radiation is central to understanding the Earth’s energy budget, climate dynamics and numerous surface processes. Modern research has substantially advanced ...

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 ...

Methane absorbs both longwave and shortwave radiation, with competing effects on climate, a study finds. The gas remains a potent warmer of the planet.

Yet at night that is released in the form of longwave radiation back into the atmosphere. If there are clouds present, that longwave radiation will stay close to the ground modifying temperatures.

The current most accurate TSI values from the Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM) on NASA’s Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment ( SORCE ) is 1360.8 ± 0.5 Watts per meter squared during the 2008 ...

In recent years, Greenland has warmed faster than the global average. A new study identifies clear-sky downwelling longwave radiation -- heat radiated by the atmosphere to the surface -- along ...

Climate models that give a low warming from increases in greenhouse gases do not match satellite measurements. Future warming will likely be worse than thought unless society acts, according to a ...

A new research investigates the relationship between surface temperature and outgoing longwave radiation. Contrary to expectations based on the Stefan-Boltzmann law, which predicts a quartic ...