FALSE OR TRUE problem about incoming and outgoing energy

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Homework Statement


At high latitudes, the incoming solar radiation is greater than outgoing terrestrial radiation:
False or true

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I would say false because if that happened, high altitudes would be very warm and the north pole is not warm. I think that the amount of terrestrial radiation going out is greater than the amount of incoming solar radiation at high latitudes.
 
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TheMathNoob said:
I think that the amount of terrestrial radiation going out is greater than the amount of incoming solar radiation at high latitudes.

Does that mean that high latitudes are cooling off to a lower temperature than they are currently at?
 
Drakkith said:
Does that mean that high latitudes are cooling off to a lower temperature than they are currently at?
Yes
 
Drakkith said:
Okay. So when does this cooling off stop?
Yes, I am reading and I just noticed that this cooling off stops because of the heat transport by warm winds from low pressure zones to high pressure zones.