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EFFECTS OF ATMOSPHERE □
Absorption◇ If the total amount of energy radiated from the sun towards the earth and its atmosphere is taken to be
100 per cent, about
14 per cent of this amount is absorbed by the
atmospheric gases (e.g. by ozone in the stratosphere to larger extent and oxygen and carbon dioxide to very limited extent),
water hare in nature.
◇ shortest wavelengths ranging between
0.02 micron and
0.29 micron are absorbed by oxygen (O₂) and
ozone gases.)
◇ Water vapour absorbs the incoming solar radiation waves of the wavelengths ranging between
0.9 micron and
2.1 microns. ︎
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