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⇒ During greenhouse effect, are infrared radiations of shorter wavelength or infrared radiations of longer wavelength radiated by earth’s surface?

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WATER vapor , carbon dioxide , methane , and other trase GASES in Earth's atmosphere absorb the LONGER wavelengths of outgoing infrared RADIATION from Earth's surface . These gases than emit the infrared radiation in all directions , both OUTWARD toward space and downward toward Earth .



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