radiative balance

English

Noun

radiative balance (countable and uncountable, plural radiative balances)

  1. The relationship between the amount of energy reaching an object (or a portion of it) and the amount leaving it. A good example of this is our Earth receiving energy from the sun, and giving off energy into the near future.

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