Answer:
How much energy is reflected from earth back into space
Explanation:
This energy exchange is known as space-atmosphere-earth energy balance. To explain it, we will give the short-wave incident solar radiation that reaches our atmosphere a value of 100 units.
Stratospheric ozone absorbs and in turn emits 3 units; Water vapor, carbon dioxide and clouds produce an absorption of 18 units. The clouds, in turn, reflect radiation into space worth 24 units, and the rest of atmospheric particles reflect another 7.
The energy that reaches the ground, either directly or indirectly, is 47 units; Of which, the different components of the earth's surface reflect an average of 4.
The surface of the Earth transforms solar energy into long-wave radiation - heating - which, when emitted into space, at a temperature of 15 degrees Celsius, would correspond to 114 units; Of which, 109 are absorbed by water vapor, carbon dioxide and clouds, thus heating the lower atmospheric layers.
