Author: Goddard Space Flight Center. Climate and Radiation BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Climate & Radiation Branch
Author: Goddard Space Flight Center. Climate and Radiation BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Climate & Radiation Branch
Author: Goddard Space Flight Center. Climate and Radiation BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Climate and Radiation Branch
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Climate & Radiation Branch
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Solar Radiation Data Manual for Flat-plate and Concentrating Collectors
Author: William F. MarionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Solar collectors
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Physics of Radiation and Climate
Author: Michael A. BoxPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 146657206X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Our current climate is strongly influenced by atmospheric composition, and changes in this composition are leading to climate change. Physics of Radiation and Climate takes a look at how the outward flow of longwave or terrestrial radiation is affected by the complexities of the atmosphere's molecular spectroscopy. This book examines the planet in
Climate Intervention
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309314852
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The growing problem of changing environmental conditions caused by climate destabilization is well recognized as one of the defining issues of our time. The root problem is greenhouse gas emissions, and the fundamental solution is curbing those emissions. Climate geoengineering has often been considered to be a "last-ditch" response to climate change, to be used only if climate change damage should produce extreme hardship. Although the likelihood of eventually needing to resort to these efforts grows with every year of inaction on emissions control, there is a lack of information on these ways of potentially intervening in the climate system. As one of a two-book report, this volume of Climate Intervention discusses albedo modification - changing the fraction of incoming solar radiation that reaches the surface. This approach would deliberately modify the energy budget of Earth to produce a cooling designed to compensate for some of the effects of warming associated with greenhouse gas increases. The prospect of large-scale albedo modification raises political and governance issues at national and global levels, as well as ethical concerns. Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth discusses some of the social, political, and legal issues surrounding these proposed techniques. It is far easier to modify Earth's albedo than to determine whether it should be done or what the consequences might be of such an action. One serious concern is that such an action could be unilaterally undertaken by a small nation or smaller entity for its own benefit without international sanction and regardless of international consequences. Transparency in discussing this subject is critical. In the spirit of that transparency, Climate Intervention: Reflecting Sunlight to Cool Earth was based on peer-reviewed literature and the judgments of the authoring committee; no new research was done as part of this study and all data and information used are from entirely open sources. By helping to bring light to this topic area, this book will help leaders to be far more knowledgeable about the consequences of albedo modification approaches before they face a decision whether or not to use them.
Measurements of the Radiation Emissions from the Nuva-Lite Dental Appliance
Author: United States. Bureau of Radiological Health. Electro-optics BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dental instruments and apparatus
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
On the Nature and Distribution of Solar Radiation
Author: Watt Engineering LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Solar radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Evaluation of Guidelines for Exposures to Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309062977
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Naturally occurring radionuclides are found throughout the earth's crust, and they form part of the natural background of radiation to which all humans are exposed. Many human activities-such as mining and milling of ores, extraction of petroleum products, use of groundwater for domestic purposes, and living in houses-alter the natural background of radiation either by moving naturally occurring radionuclides from inaccessible locations to locations where humans are present or by concentrating the radionuclides in the exposure environment. Such alterations of the natural environment can increase, sometimes substantially, radiation exposures of the public. Exposures of the public to naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) that result from human activities that alter the natural environment can be subjected to regulatory control, at least to some degree. The regulation of public exposures to such technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive materials (TENORM) by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other regulatory and advisory organizations is the subject of this study by the National Research Council's Committee on the Evaluation of EPA Guidelines for Exposures to Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials.