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General Knowledge · Q40

Environmental Science

Competitive Exams · General Knowledge · question 40

Q40

At night, low clouds:

A.
Enhance the atmospheric greenhouse effect
Answer
B.
Weaken the atmospheric greenhouse effect
C.
Are often caused by the atmospheric greenhouse effect
D.
Have no effect on the atmospheric greenhouse effect

Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
At night the reflection effect is zero so the greenhouse effect and reflection of thermal radiation dominate and the low thick clouds have a warming effect.
The greenhouse effect could at most return 50 percent of the outgoing radiation back to the Earth