political subdivision code activity tax rate admissions and amusement tax rate schedule effective january 1, 2018 prince george's county county area (b) 1700 r sales 0.5 coin-op amusement devices golf, green fees 5.0 all other activities *10.0
100% of the energy entering earthâs atmosphere comes from the sun. ~50% of the incoming energy is absorbed by the earthâs surface i.e. the land and oceans. ~30% is directly reflected back to space by clouds, the earthâs surface and different gases and particles in the atmosphere (the earth's albedo is 0.3 on average). ~20% is absorbed by the atmosphere and clouds. The 70% of the sunâs energy that is absorbed by the earthâs surface, clouds, and atmosphere causes warming. Any object or gas that has a temperature emits radiation outward, and this is ultimately re-radiated back into space.
Once the Sunâs energy reaches Earth, it is intercepted first by the atmosphere. A small part of the Sunâs energy is directly absorbed, particularly by certain gases such as ozone and water vapor. Some of the Sunâs energy is reflected back to space by clouds and Earthâs surface. Most of the radiation, however, is absorbed by Earthâs surface.