Reflection,Scattering, and Absorption of Incoming Sunlight Incoming Solar Radiation 4% 100% 6% 20% 30% Reflected Scattered Reflected Lost to Upward Upward Upward Space Top of Atnosphere 169% 19% Absorbed by Absorbed in Gases and Dust the Atmosphere 3%Absorbed by Clouds 21% 51%Absorbed 6既 Direet Radiation Absorbed Radiation 20% at Surface as Radiation Direct and Scattered Reflected Indirect 圆ownwand D0anta国 Radiation 1997 Oklahoma Climatological Survey. All rights reserved