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    The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) was a 2003–2020 NASA-sponsored satellite mission that measured incoming X-ray, ultraviolet, visible...
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    ISBN 978-1-118-67160-3. "Solar Engineering of Thermal Processes" (PDF). Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment, Total Solar Irradiance Data (retrieved...
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  • Photometer System (XPS). an instrument aboard the NASA Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) space probe Extruded polystyrene foam (XPS) as insulation...
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    Patterns of solar irradiance and solar variation have been a main driver of climate change over the millions to billions of years of the geologic time...
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    the period of a solar cycle, levels of solar radiation and ejection of solar material, the number and size of sunspots, solar flares, and coronal loops...
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  • (UARS) Solar/Stellar Irradiance Comparison Experiment (SOLSTICE) Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE) Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)...
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  • The Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind, that are captured by and held around...
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  • counteract anthropogenic climate change. The term has been used as an umbrella term for both carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation modification when applied...
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    Solar radiation modification or solar radiation management (SRM), also known as solar geoengineering, are planetary-scale approaches to limit global warming...
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    1029/2010GL045777. S2CID 8190208. "Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment". University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. Archived from...
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  • Center, and previous Chief of the Laboratory for Climate and Radiation (2003–2013), Project Scientist of the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)...
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    Retrieved: 21 December 2016. "Welcome to the Home Page of the SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE)". Lasp.colorado.edu. Archived from the original...
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    In climate science, longwave radiation (LWR) is electromagnetic thermal radiation emitted by Earth's surface, atmosphere, and clouds. It is also referred...
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    Sunlight (redirect from Sun radiation)
    horizon. When direct solar radiation is not blocked by clouds, it is experienced as sunshine, a combination of bright light and radiant heat (atmospheric)...
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    tiny contribution compared to solar energy. The energy budget also takes into account how energy moves through the climate system.: 2227  The Sun heats...
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    Interplanetary medium Magnetic sail Parker Solar Probe Plasmasphere Solar cycle Solar sail Solar Wind Composition Experiment STEREO McComas, D. J.; Elliott, H...
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    use of mechanical and electrical devices. The key to designing a passive solar building is to best take advantage of the local climate performing an accurate...
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  • atmospheric dynamics, solar radiation, and the Earth's surface. This understanding is critical for predicting future climate scenarios and informing global...
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    platform is the Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE). Space climate research has three main aims: to better understand the long-term solar variability...
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  • NASA/SwRI- launched in 2008 Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) for NASA/LASP- launched in 2003 Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager...
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    mechanisms is invoked and no matter how much the solar variation is amplified." The consensus position is that solar radiation may have increased by 0...
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    Models". shodor.org. M.I. Budyko (1969). "The effect of solar radiation variations on the climate of the Earth". Tellus. 21 (5): 611–619. doi:10.3402/tellusa...
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    Solar sails (also known as lightsails, light sails, and photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight...
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    Thermal radiation is electromagnetic radiation emitted by the thermal motion of particles in matter. All matter with a temperature greater than absolute...
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    Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is a proposed method of solar geoengineering (or solar radiation modification) to reduce global warming. This would introduce...
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    of solar radiation that impacts the Earth as a form of climate engineering. The concept was first theorised in 1923 by physicist Hermann Oberth and later...
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    Cosmic ray (redirect from Cosmic radiation)
    discovered in the primary cosmic radiation by an MIT experiment carried on the OSO-3 satellite in 1967. Components of both galactic and extra-galactic origins were...
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    Infrared (redirect from Infra-red radiation)
    The balance between absorbed and emitted infrared radiation has an important effect on Earth's climate. Infrared radiation is emitted or absorbed by molecules...
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    Patt, Anthony (2021). "Cross-Working Group Box SRM: Solar Radiation Modification" (PDF). Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution...
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    Explorer 7 thermal radiation experiment was designed to measure incident and reflected solar UV radiation and terrestrial IR radiation in order to obtain...
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