DETERMINATION OF THE TEMPERATURE BALANCING IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND SURFACE OF THE EARTH BY USING PHYSICS TECHNIQUES

Hayatu Abba Ibrahim

Department of Physics

University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri,Borno State, Nigeria .

Email: hayatuabbaibrahim5@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The need to determine the balancing temperature is very important as any increase will result into climate change. Sun behaves as a blackbody with a temperature peak of 5800k, main source of heat to the Earth is solar energy, which is transmitted from the Sun to the Earth by radiation and is converted to heat at the Earth’s surface. To balance this input of solar radiation, the Earth itself emits radiation to space .Some of this terrestrial radiation is trapped by greenhouse gases and radiated back to the Earth, resulting in the warming of the surface known as the greenhouse effect. Trapping of terrestrial radiation by naturally occurring greenhouse gases is essential for maintaining the Earth’s surface temperature above the freezing point. Once, there is an increase in the equilibrium temperature in the atmosphere and the surface of the Earth, then it results into global warming, climate change, drought, desertification, flooding e.t.c. The equilibrium temperature can be derived using physics techniques.