Re: atmospheric blanket / greenhouse effect

[Robert Cohen <Robert.Cohen@PO-BOX.ESU.EDU>]

I had written:

> I knew water contributes more but I must admit that I wasn't aware 
> that the atmosphere was already opaque to IR in the bands 
> associated 
> with CO2.  Do you have a source for this that I can reference?

To which Larry Woolf provided:
> See: 
<http://ceos.cnes.fr:8100/cdrom/ceos1/science/dg/dg1.htm#anchor5717807>

I'm confused.  The peak wavelength associated with terrestrial radiation
should be around 10 microns, no?  I can see that the ozone band there is
almost saturated but the CO2 band is not.

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