Re: Long wave radiation from earth.

From: "Bill Habr" <billhabr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 10:34:18 -0500

"Kamal" <trivedi.kamal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The greenhouse effect occurs because the atmosphere does not stop the
short-wave radiation coming from sun but stops the long-wave radiation
being radiated from earth; thereby increasing the temperature. I want
to know what is it - which property of atmosphere - that stops the
long-wave radiation but not the short-wave.

1) Technically it doesn't STOP infrared.

2) try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Atmospheric_Transmission.png

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_effect

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