What is energy input and output on earth?

1 Answer
Oct 13, 2015

These are approximations but from NASA,
340 W/m^2 is received by Earth 100 W/m^2 is reflected by the clouds and ground collectively so about 240 W/m^2 is absorbed into either the ground or the atmosphere.

The Earth emits around 400 W/m^2, to which 340 W/m^2 is reflected back through greenhouse gases, the rest escaped through radiation. The clouds emit around 30 W/m^2, the atmosphere emits around 170 W/m^2 and there is an atmospheric window which emits 40 W/m^2.

These figures were generated using average over a ten year period.

Hope this is useful.