Explore how satellites measure CO₂ levels and their role in tracking heat absorption in Earth’s atmosphere. This video ...

Beginning in the 1960s, satellite instruments have measured Earth's reflected broadband shortwave radiation and emitted ...

Atmospheric radiation encompasses the multifaceted processes by which solar energy and thermal emission interact within the Earth’s atmosphere. It is fundamental to the planet’s energy budget ...

For the first time ever, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured an unprecedented image of an exoplanet outside ...

The ten warmest years since the early days of the industrial revolution have all occurred since 2015. Read more here.

There’s always going to be a way to make something abiotically.” With these words, chemist Eleanor Browne of the University of Colorado Boulder captured the humility accompanying one of the most ...

Earth’s climate is determined by a delicate balance between how much of the Sun’s radiative energy is absorbed in the atmosphere and at the surface and how much thermal infrared radiation Earth emits ...

The Earth is heating faster than many climate models predicted. According to a new study from CICERO, models with low climate ...

Downward infrared irradiance is a measurement of the irradiance arriving on a horizontal plane at the Earth's surface, for wavelengths in the range 4 - 100 μm (the wavelength emitted by atmospheric ...

References [1] Dual-channel infrared OPO lidar optical system for remote sensing of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere: Design and characteristics. Sensors International (2025).

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered that a hazy sky over frozen Pluto is helping to cool the dwarf planet's atmosphere, while at the same time giving methane and other organic ...

Object Details Manufacturer EG&G Summary This special-purpose slide rule was supplied by the engineering firm EG&G Judson, to aid in the design and analysis of radiation measuring and sensing systems ...