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greenhouse effect the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.

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greenhouse effect The elevation of a planet's surface temperature resulting from the absorption of long-wavelength (infrared) radiation by gases in the atmosphere. For instance, carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons, and water vapour in the Earth's atmosphere are all transparent to incoming short-wavelength solar radiation, but absorb outgoing infrared. The Earth is, on average, about 35 K warmer than it would be if its atmosphere were completely transparent to outgoing infrared. On Venus, the greenhouse effect raises the surface temperature by some 500 K to around 730 K.

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