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So What is Solar Radiation Anyway?

Solar radiation is the electromagnetic radiation emitted from the sun.

The sun emitselectromagnetic

waves in thevisible lightspectrum as wellas the near-visiblelight spectrum (i.e.infrared and

ultraviolet)



P idwirny, M. (2006). "Atmospheric Effects on Incoming Solar Radiation". Fundamentals of Physical Geography, 2nd Edition Access: http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/7f.html



The Open University.

<http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=397952&section=1.1.2>.



September 2010 <http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_3_1.htm>



B ibliographyDepartment of Energy. Encyclopedia of Alternate Energy and Sustainable LivingAccess: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/AE_solar_radiation.html .Annotation: P rovided me with the basics of solar radiation.B arett, Scott. The Incredible Economics of Geoengineering. P rod. Springer Science and B usiness Media. 14 June 2007.Access:10.1007/s10640-007-9174-8Govindasamy, B ., K Caldeira and P.B . Duffy. Geoengineering Earth's Radiation balance to mitigate climate change from aquadrupling of CO2. Livermore, 1 March 2001.

Access: 10.1016/S0921-8181(02)00195-9Annotation: P rovided me with insight into the effects of geoengineering as well as gave examples of possible problems inthe future.

The Greenhouse Effect. September 2010Access: <http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_3_1.htm>Annotation: Gave me an overview of the Greenhouse effect as well as provided me with a graphic for one of my slides.

Matthews, h. Damon and Ken Caldeira. Transient climate-carbon simulations of planetary geoengineering. Vol. 104.Department of Global Ecology. Stanford, 12 June 2007.Access: www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0700419104

Annotation:provided useful, experimental based data on the effects of injected aerosol on the climate in long run.P idwirny, M. (2006). "Atmospheric Effects on Incoming Solar Radiation". Fundamentals of Physical Geography, 2nd Edition .Access: http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/7f.htmlAnnotation: P rovided good background information on atmospheric processes as well as a diagram used on one of myslides.

Trenberth, Kevin E. and Aiguo Dai. Effects of Mount P inatubo volcanic eruption on the hydrological cycle as an analog of geoengineering. Vol. 34. American Geophysical Union. 26 June 2007.Access: 10.1029/2007GL030524Annotation: P rovided me with a case study for Mount P inatubo and paralleled to the injection of aerosol.



B ibliographyB udyko, M.I. The Effect of Solar Radiation variations on the climate of the Earth. 18 December 1968.Access: Tellus XXI 39-692891Annotation:Helped me understand how slight changes in global climate can affect the biosphere on high levels, (glacierformation)

Govindasamy, B , et al. Impact of geoengineering schemes on the terrestrial biosphere. American Geophysical Union.Livermore, 26 November 2002.Access: 10.1029/2002GL015911

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rovided me with details on how geoengineering could directly impact the land (photosynthetic rate of plants)B ristow, Keith L. and Gaylon S. Campbell. On the Relationship B etween incoming solar radiation and daily maximum andminimum temperature. Department of Agronomy and Soils. P ullman, 4 November 1983.Access: 0168-1923/84Annotation: P rovided a model in which incoming solar radiaiton is related to temperature, making relationship quite clear.

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