Tag: solar radiation
How to effectively protect yourself from the sun?
The specialists are adamant: the best protection against the sun is simply to…avoid it! Especially when the ultraviolet rays are the most intense, that is to say between 12 p.m.…
Why is it hot during the day and cold at night in the desert?
During the day, the sand of the dunes of the Sahara is hot. You need good shoes, and cover yourself from head to toe, so as not to burn in…
Radiative forcing: what is it?
The term radiative forcing is used in climatology to set the “difference between downward illuminance and upward illuminance”reads the glossary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Understand, the…
Thermal radiation: what is it?
We qualify as thermal rays the amount of energy that a body whose temperature differs from absolute zero yields in the form of radiation of electromagnetic nature and wavelength between…