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    The document contains an assignment from an Earth System Processes course at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata for the Spring 2024 semester, instructed by Gaurav Shukla. It provides 5 questions for the assignment: 1) Explain how temperature varies with altitude in the atmosphere, 2) Describe how pressure varies with altitude, 3) Identify two physical processes by which gases can absorb infrared radiation and give examples, 4) Determine the peak wavelength of radiation for a 900-K blackbody given the peak of a 300-K blackbody, and 5) Explain how and why the Sun's spectrum of radiation differs when measured in space versus at Earth's surface. Students are asked to submit hand

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    The document contains an assignment from an Earth System Processes course at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata for the Spring 2024 semester, instructed by Gaurav Shukla. It provides 5 questions for the assignment: 1) Explain how temperature varies with altitude in the atmosphere, 2) Describe how pressure varies with altitude, 3) Identify two physical processes by which gases can absorb infrared radiation and give examples, 4) Determine the peak wavelength of radiation for a 900-K blackbody given the peak of a 300-K blackbody, and 5) Explain how and why the Sun's spectrum of radiation differs when measured in space versus at Earth's surface. Students are asked to submit hand

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    Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata

    Earth System Process (ES1201, Spring 2024)

    Assignment-1

    Instructor: Gaurav Shukla

    Note: You may be requested to submit the part of assignment in the We Learn System. For that, please
    submit the scanned copy of the worked out (hand-written only) assignment. You are free to discuss
    among yourselves. However, any attempt to copy blindly or use of AI based software will result in zero
    marks for everyone involved. You need to write answers based on your own understanding.

    1. Explain the thermal variation of the atmosphere as a function of altitude.


    2. Describe the pressure variation of the atmosphere as a function of altitude.
    3. Identify two physical processes by which gases can absorb infrared radiation.
    Give examples of each process.
    4. Given that a 300-K blackbody radiates its peak energy at the wavelength of about
    10 𝜇𝑚, at what wavelength would a 900-K blackbody radiate its peak energy?
    5. Why and how does the Sun’s spectrum of electromagnetic radiation in space differ from
    that measured at the surface of Earth?

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