What atmospheric process widens gas absorption lines under higher pressure?
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pressure broadening
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What atmospheric process widens gas absorption lines under higher pressure?
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pressure broadening
Earth's surface emits most of its thermal energy as what kind of radiation?
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longwave radiation
What is Earth's approximate effective temperature used in greenhouse-effect comparisons?
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255 K
Which French physicist strengthened Fourier's greenhouse-effect argument in 1827 and 1838?
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Claude Pouillet
Which American scientist showed in 1856 that carbon dioxide warmed more in sunlight?
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Eunice Newton Foote
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Earth's surface emits most of its thermal energy as what kind of radiation?
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longwave radiation
Which French physicist strengthened Fourier's greenhouse-effect argument in 1827 and 1838?
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Claude Pouillet
Which American scientist showed in 1856 that carbon dioxide warmed more in sunlight?
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Eunice Newton Foote
Which positive feedback occurs when warming increases atmospheric water vapor?
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water vapor feedback
What metric compares a greenhouse gas's warming effect with carbon dioxide?
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global warming potential
Which reference gas has a global warming potential of 1 by definition?
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carbon dioxide
Greenhouse gases absorb and emit energy mainly in which part of the spectrum?
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thermal infrared