Question

Wavelengths of incoming solar radiation are __________________ the wavelengths of reradiated heat. question 2 options: faster than shorter than twice the size of the same size as

Answer 1

I think that the wavelengths of an incoming solar radiation are shorter than the wavelengths of reradiated heat. This is because the incoming solar radiation to the surface of the earth is in the utraviolet (short) to near infrared (long) wavelength bands. After absorption has taken place, surfaces reradiate heat energy back to the atmosphere at long wavelength infrared.