Mini Bio (1) Hisham discovered his passion for the arts while performing the poem I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Poet Laureate Maya Angelou, in a high school English class. Hisham studied at the world renowned Negro Ensemble Theatre Company, which has brought forth such notable actors as Denzel Washington, Ossie Davis, and Phylicia Rashad.
1 In the climate system these forms of heat transfer are manifested in the motion of the atmosphere and ocean, on both local and global scales.  Radiation: The transfer of energy through electromagnetic waves. This form of energy transfer does not require the presence of matter to occur. In this form energy can travel through empty space from the Sun to the Earth and other planets in the solar system. Radiation also occurs within the climate system between the earth's surface and the atmosphere, and within the atmosphere and ocean.
In particular, the heat lamp you have in your bathroom. The heat lamp beams out heat to you and keeps you warm through radiation. Radiation is light that can transfer heat. Heat energy transferred through radiation is as familiar as the light of day; in fact, it is the light of day. The sun is a huge thermal reactor about 93 million miles away in space, and neither conduction nor convection would produce any of the energy that arrives to Earth through the vacuum of space. The sunâs energy gets to the Earth through radiation, which you can confirm on a sunny day just by standing outside and letting the sunâs rays warm your face.