SOLAR RADIATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does solar radiation mean? 

• SOLAR RADIATION (noun)
  The noun SOLAR RADIATION has 1 sense:

1. radiation from the sun

  Familiarity information: SOLAR RADIATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLAR RADIATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Radiation from the sun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("solar radiation" is a kind of...):

radiation (energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "solar radiation"):

insolation (incident solar radiation)

flare; solar flare (a sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface; associated with sunspots and radio interference)

solar prominence (large eruptions of luminous hydrogen gas that rise thousands of kilometers above the chromosphere)

solar wind (a stream of protons moving radially from the sun)

 Context examples 

The percentage of solar radiation that is reflected relative to the total incoming radiation.

(Albedo, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Amount of solar radiation received on a given body or in a given area.

(Insolation, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Scientists think that dust-trapped water vapor may be riding them like an elevator to space, where solar radiation breaks apart their molecules.

(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)

The most accessible source is CO2 in the polar ice caps; it could be vaporized by spreading dust on it to absorb more solar radiation or by using explosives.

(Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology, NASA)

Between 1987 and 2000, the Dry Valleys experienced a period of cooling, during which mean summer temperatures steadily declined while solar radiation gradually increased.

(Extreme melt season leads to decade-long ecosystem changes in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, National Science Foundation)

The models simulate the ability of pollen particles to interact with incoming solar radiation to understand how these particles will affect climate.

(Estimating how pollen particles in the atmosphere influence climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Earth's derives the vast majority of its heat externally from solar radiation, courtesy of our Sun.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)

Cutaneous melanin pigment plays a critical role in camouflage, mimicry, social communication, and protection against harmful effects of solar radiation.

(Melanogenesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Theory that proposes large scale climate changes are due in part to the variations in precession, eccentricity and obliquity that affects the amount of solar radiation received by the earth.

(Orbital forcing, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

For almost a decade, scientists have debated why the observed levels of CCl4 in the atmosphere have declined slower than expectations, which are based on what is known about how the compound is destroyed by solar radiation and other natural processes.

(Ozone-depleting compound persists, NASA)