The cooling of the earth's surface. At night, the earth suffers a net heat loss to space due to terrestrial cooling.
The process by which the earth's surface and adjacent air cool by emitting infrared radiation. In other words... when skies clear overnight, the day's warmth radiates from the ground into the atmosphere at night. This allows Colorado to cool down significantly.
the process by which the surface of the earth and its adjacent air cool by emission of infrared radiation
Accomplished mainly at night, the cooling of the earth's surface and adjacent air or whenever the earth's surface suffers a net loss of heat due to the emission of infrared radiation.
In meteorology, the result of radiative cooling of the earth's surface and adjacent air. Radiational cooling occurs, as is typical on calm, clear nights, whenever the longwave emission from the surface is not balanced by significant amounts of absorbed shortwave radiation or downwelling longwave from the atmosphere above the surface, and there are no nonradiative sources of sufficient energy to make up the difference.
The cooling of the earth's surface and the adjacent air. Although it occurs primarily at night, it happens when the earth's surface suffers a net loss of heat due to outgoing radiation.
Radiational cooling is the cooling of the earth's surface through thermal radiation, also known as infrared radiation (IR). Although our eyes are not sensitive to IR, we can feel changes in temperature. The invisible effect of radiational cooling is ongoing day and night, however; we only notice the drop in temperature at night when there is no solar heating to mask the effect.