The emissivity of the earth's surface
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J. T. Houghton
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Article
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1958
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Some measurements from aircraft of the emissivity of the earth's surface are described. They show that for the type of surface studied, the earth's surface is radiating as a blackβbody at a temperature somewhere between screen air temperature and grass or seaβsurface temperature.