| 释义 |
greenhouse effect
noun
: warming of the surface and lower atmosphere (as of the Earth or Venus) that is caused by conversion of solar radiation into heat in a process involving selective transmission of short wave solar radiation by the atmosphere, its absorption by the planet's surface, and reradiation as infrared which is absorbed and partly reradiated back to the surface by certain atmospheric gases (as carbon dioxide and water vapor) and that tends to increase with increasing amounts of such gases |