There have been other studies using line - by -
line radiative transfer models (see e.g., Myhre et al 1998) that come to the answer you give, which gives a simple approximation as ~ 5.35 ln (C / Co), where the units are now in W / m2 and C and Co are the final and initial CO2 concentrations.
It's also the case that the results for the
radiative transfer equations will have a certain amount of error using «band
models» compared with the «
line by
line» (LBL) codes for all trace gases.
If I were choosing a
model to describe with as much quantitative fidelity as possible the greenhouse effect in the earth's atmosphere, then the
model I would choose would be a state - of - the - art convective -
radiative transfer code using the actual composition and empirical absorption / emission
lines for the atmospheric constituents.
In the thread on Confidence in
Radiative Transfer Models, we argued that line - by - line radiative transfer codes and the best band models can accurately simulate clear sky (no clouds, aerosols) infrared radiation fluxes at the surface provided that the vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and trace gas concentrations are specified ac
Radiative Transfer Models, we argued that line - by - line radiative transfer codes and the best band models can accurately simulate clear sky (no clouds, aerosols) infrared radiation fluxes at the surface provided that the vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and trace gas concentrations are specified acc
Transfer Models, we argued that line - by - line radiative transfer codes and the best band models can accurately simulate clear sky (no clouds, aerosols) infrared radiation fluxes at the surface provided that the vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and trace gas concentrations are specified accur
Models, we argued that
line - by -
line radiative transfer codes and the best band models can accurately simulate clear sky (no clouds, aerosols) infrared radiation fluxes at the surface provided that the vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and trace gas concentrations are specified ac
radiative transfer codes and the best band models can accurately simulate clear sky (no clouds, aerosols) infrared radiation fluxes at the surface provided that the vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and trace gas concentrations are specified acc
transfer codes and the best band
models can accurately simulate clear sky (no clouds, aerosols) infrared radiation fluxes at the surface provided that the vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and trace gas concentrations are specified accur
models can accurately simulate clear sky (no clouds, aerosols) infrared radiation fluxes at the surface provided that the vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and trace gas concentrations are specified accurately.