Nobel Prize in Physics for 2021 has been awarded to climatologists Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann for the physical modeling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming. How will it improve our understanding of climate change?
Answer: Professors Manabe and Hasselmann were awarded Noble Prize “for the physical modeling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming.
- The incoming short wavelength radiation from the Sun is absorbed by the Earth and re-emitted outwards as long wavelength radiation. The greenhouse gases in atmosphere like CO2, CH4; water vapor absorbs a part of this outgoing radiation and warms up. This is known as the green-house effect.
- His model confirmed that the rise in temperature was, indeed, due to the increase in carbon dioxide, because it predicted rising temperatures close to the ground and cooling of outer ....
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