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This is a derived formula, from the German physicist Max
Planck, that portrays the amount of radiation emitted by a blackbody as
theoretically determined by its temperature. It is an equation that produces a
curve, termed Planck's blackbody radiation curve, which illustrates that the
warmer a body is, the greater is its blackbody emission at each wavelength and
the shorter is the wavelength at which emissions peak.
[An Introduction to
Three-Dimensional Climate Modeling; Warren Washington and Claire Parkinson; page
13; 1986; University Science Books; Mill Valley, California.] [Atmospheric
Science; John Wallace and Peter Hobbs; pages 281 and 287; 1977; Academic Press,
Inc; New York.]
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