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    Diffuse sky radiation is solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface after having been scattered from the direct solar beam by molecules or particulates...
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    in Earth's atmosphere causes diffuse sky radiation, which is the reason for the blue color of the daytime and twilight sky, as well as the yellowish to...
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  • Basin Diffuse sky radiation, solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface after Rayleigh scattering Rayleigh scattering, which causes the sky to appear...
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    kilometres into outer space. Coronal light is typically obscured by diffuse sky radiation and glare from the solar disk, but can be easily seen by the naked...
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    Sunlight (redirect from Sun radiation)
    long horizon paths gives the zenith sky its blueness when the sun is near the horizon". See diffuse sky radiation for more details. The Sun may be said...
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    indirect sunlight during the daytime. This includes direct sunlight, diffuse sky radiation, and (often) both of these reflected by Earth and terrestrial objects...
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    predicted by the law of reflection. Reflections of radiation that undergo scattering are often called diffuse reflections and unscattered reflections are called...
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  • the total spectrum of the electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun Diffuse sky radiation, solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface after having...
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    compared to the effect of losses on DNI. Diffuse horizontal irradiance (DHI), or diffuse sky radiation is the radiation at the Earth's surface from light scattered...
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  • Skye Comics, an American comic book line Diffuse sky radiation Red sky at morning (disambiguation) Red sky at night (disambiguation) This disambiguation...
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  • considerations than efficiency (Pout/Pin). Air mass (astronomy) Diffuse sky radiation Earth's atmosphere Insolation Mie scattering Photovoltaics Rayleigh...
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    detector, or film) and reduces the incidence of diffuse radiation on it. The first diffusion radiation grid was developed in 1913 by Gustav Peter Bucky...
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    (see Brewster's angle for how this works) as well as by polarized diffuse sky radiation (skylight). Besides the standard model there are several different...
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    from water molecules themselves also contributes a cyan color. Diffuse sky radiation due to Rayleigh scattering in the atmosphere along one's line of...
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    occurs when looking directly overhead and at a higher altitude. Diffuse sky radiation H-B de Saussure, Description d'un cyanomètre ou d'un appareil destiné...
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  • Skylight, a skyscraper in Warsaw, Poland, part of Złote Tarasy complex Diffuse sky radiation Light pollution This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    the same rule applies to festival days. Belt of Venus Blue hour Diffuse sky radiation Earth's shadow, visible at twilight Gloom Green flash Polar night...
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    Nebula (redirect from Diffuse nebula)
    December 2012). Imaging the Southern Sky. Springer. p. 248. ISBN 978-1461447498. "The Messier Catalog: Diffuse Nebulae". SEDS. Archived from the original...
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    Sky brightness refers to the visual perception of the sky and how it scatters and diffuses light. The fact that the sky is not completely dark at night...
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    is thermal radiation. This energy is partially absorbed and scattered in the atmosphere, the latter process being the reason why the sky is visibly blue...
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  • Library, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska. Atmosphere of Earth Diffuse sky radiation Rayleigh scattering Mie scattering The site of the original Wheaton...
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    Hemispherical photography (category Atmospheric radiation)
    of all diffuse radiation (scattered from the atmosphere) originating from any visible (non-obscured) sky directions (see diffuse sky radiation). The sum...
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    Background Explorer (COBE) mission was to take precise measurements of the diffuse radiation between 1 micrometre and 1 cm (0.39 in) over the whole celestial sphere...
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    there is no reflected radiation, and so the spectral radiance is entirely due to emission. In addition, a black body is a diffuse emitter (its emission...
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    (see Brewster's angle for how this works) as well as by polarized diffuse sky radiation (skylight). This can be especially useful to see beneath the surface...
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    divergence). It is a flow pattern of deformation. diffuse sky radiation The component of incoming solar radiation that is scattered from the direct solar beam...
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    resolution, any EUV spectrometer must be designed to limit the effect of diffuse sky radiation. The medium and long wavelength channels of the EUVE Spectrometer...
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  • Mendeleev: Periodic table. 1871: Lord Rayleigh: Diffuse sky radiation (Rayleigh scattering) explains why sky appears blue. 1873: Johannes Diderik van der...
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    Gamma ray (redirect from Gamma radiation)
    A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol γ ), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic...
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    Large radio telescopes scan the intensity in the sky of particular frequencies of electromagnetic radiation, which are characteristic of certain molecules'...
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