Temperature inversion produced by nocturnal radiational cooling of the Earth's surface, a snow or ice surface, or the upper part of a cloud layer, etc.
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
A decrease of temperature at the Earth's surface or within the atmosphere due to a negative radiation balance, i.e. when infrared emission from a particular volume or body is greater than solar and/or
infrared absorption by that volume or body. syn. radiational cooling
In radiation, the net flux of radiation into or out of a system. As a consequence of radiative forcing there must be some change to the nonradiative energy states of the system.