Not exact matches
the problem is that this definition implicitly assumes that the global, time average surface temperature is a definite single valued function
of the radiative average forcing, which is far from being true since there are considerable
horizontal heat transfer modifying the latitudinal repartition
of temperature: the local vertical radiative budget is NOT verified.
The uncertainty is largest on the regional scale because the
horizontal transports
of energy (latent
heat, sensible
heat, geopotential energy) dominate over the radiative
transfer of energy.
Laminar Natural Convection
Heat Transfer Characteristics
of Molten Salt Around
Horizontal Cylinder
In the case
of water surfaces, the
transfer is by convection and may consequently be affected by the
horizontal transport
of heat within large bodies
of water.
About 40 years ago, using electrical
heating of horizontal plates
of hot - rolled steel and aluminium to separate natural convective and radiative
heat transfer, I measured the former and deduced the latter by difference as a function
of local GHG composition and temperature to design large process plant.
I would like an answer to what happens to the initial small hotter layer at the top — do nt quote conduction as we have none in the adiabatic case Your
transfer of heat between two
horizontal jars is nothing to do with this case and requires a gas conduction which is assumed to be zero in the adiabatic column
This was because they only had the, now outdated, Clausius statement which physicists now realise is only strictly correct for
heat transfers in a
horizontal plane, not for conduction, diffusion and convection in a vertical plane when subjected to the force
of gravity.