Shortwave radiation

From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.

Shortwave radiation is a term used to describe the radiant energy emitted by the sun in the visible and near-ultraviolet wavelengths (between about 0.1 and 2 micrometers).

Compare this to longwave radiation.

External links

• National Science Digital Library - Shortwave radiation (http://www.nsdl.arm.gov/Library/glossary.shtml#Shortwave_radiation)
• Measuring Solar Radiation: The Solar Infrared Radiation Station (SIRS) (http://avc.comm.nsdlib.org/cgi-bin/wiki_grade_interface.pl?Measuring_Solar_Radiation). A lesson plan that deals with shortwave radiation from the SIRS instrument.

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page) Shortwave_radiation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortwave_radiation) version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shortwave_radiation&action=history) GNU Free Documentation Lizenz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License) CC-by-sa (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/)

---