Some measurements from aircraft of the emissivity of the earth's surface are described. They show that for the type of surface studied, the earth's surface is radiating as a black‐body at a temperature somewhere between screen air temperature and grass or sea‐surface temperature.
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J. T. Houghton (1958) studied this question.
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