MinuteEarth provides an energetic and entertaining view of trends in earth’s environment – in just a few minutes!
Want to learn more about the topic in this week’s video? Here are some key words/phrases to get your googling started:
- Radiation balance - incoming radiant energy from the sun minus outgoing energy heading into space.
- Infrared radiation - electromagnetic radiation that is invisible to us; comes in longer wavelengths than visible light and provides energy transfer we call heat.
References:
Virtual Chembook, Elmhurst College, Charles E. Ophardt
http://elmhcx9.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vche...
Climate and Earth’s Energy Budget, NASA Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Feat...
Infrared spectroscopy/Caltech (mirrored from UCLA chemistry)
http://www.wag.caltech.edu/home/jang/...
http://elmhcx9.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vche...