What has the the efficiency of latent heat transport by water vapor got to do with calculating the total potential energy or the total kinetic energy in the atmosphere? (scienceofdoom.com)
ignoring the energy cost of water and latent heat transport [in the hydrologic cycle] leads to equilibrium calculations overestimating the climate sensitivity)... (realclimate.org)
@Pierre - Normand It's special because there is no convective or latent heat transport at all within it and so radiative fluxes through the tropopause must exactly match the TOA flux after the troposphere has adjusted to the instantaneous forcing. (judithcurry.com)