After launch, large thermal gradients due to solar heating developed within the hot load, making it difficult to determine from the thermistor readings
the average effective temperature, or the temperature the radiometer sees.
Not exact matches
Our
effective temperature scale is between 0 - 200 K cooler than that expected from the Infrared Flux Method, depending on the adopted extinction map, which provides evidence for a lower value on
average than that inferred for the Kepler Input Catalog (KIC).
The standard assumption has been that, while heat is transferred rapidly into a relatively thin, well - mixed surface layer of the ocean (
averaging about 70 m in depth), the transfer into the deeper waters is so slow that the atmospheric
temperature reaches
effective equilibrium with the mixed layer in a decade or so.
So after considering all of that, the estimated current «surface»
temperature produces an estimated
effective radiant return energy from the atmosphere of about 345Wm - 3 + / - 9 called DWLR which, had the
average effective radiant energy of the oceans been used, ~ 334Wm - 2 would have created less confusion and still have been within a more realistic uncertainty range of + / - 17 Wm - 2.
The
effective radiant layer of the atmosphere is roughly at an
average altitude of 5000 meters and
temperature of roughly -30 C degrees.
Without them the albedo would be low and the
effective average temperature of the surface above 0C.
Each attempt to «improve» your estimate of the global
average temperature for a given month, year, etc., will not converge to the correct value but just produce another random number within the random - number generator's
effective range, no more and no less meaningful than the previous one.
On
average, there won't be a change in the equilibrium radiating
temperature of the Earth, but there will be a change in the
effective radiating altitude consequent on the change in the atmosphere's
effective thermal conductance.
Major fossil fuel companies have today released a Joint Collaborative Declaration under the Oil & Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI) recognising the need to limit global
average temperature rise to 2 ⁰ C. Launched in Paris this morning, they are calling for an «
effective climate change agreement at COP21».
In November, delegates to the UN Climate Change Convention annual negotiations will gather in Paris to try to conclude an ambitious and
effective agreement on preventing the global
average temperature rise caused by greenhouse gas emissions exceeding 2 ˚C above its pre-industrial level.
The Earth's atmosphere, satisfying the energy minimum principle, is configured to the most
effective cooling of the planet with an equilibrium global
average vertical
temperature and moisture profile.
This is * not * the
average value of the
temperature T - that is why I called it an «
effective radiative
temperature», and not the «
average temperature».
Now I did use the word «
averages over the planetary surface», but these obviously weighted
averages - the
effective temperature is weighted by the fourth power of itself, and the
effective emissivity is weighted by the forth power of local
temperature.
The ratio of these gases allows for a much more
effective and exact calculation of
average global ocean
temperature, according to Severinghaus and his team of researchers at Scripps.
This specific value of
temperature and the lapse rate and altitude give the
effective surface
average temperature.
The
effective average location of outgoing radiation is about 5 km, so the lapse rate times 5 km = -33 C. Note that the higher ground and thus air
temperature near the ground then cause the higher radiation levels.
In the real world; that being the laboratory where CO2 does its dastardly deed on our climate, the source of the energy that purports to do the heating, is (on
average) a black body like source of Long wave infrared radiation having a spectral peak at about 10.1 microns wavelength, and containing about 98 % of its energy in a range of about 5.0 to 80 microns wavelength, at an
effective Temperature (on
average) of 288 Kelvin.
The following profile shows the
effective temperature that the SOI contributes to the global
average temperature over the years: This is a classical compensation term.
All of the positive and negative feedbacks to the greenhouse effect give an
average temperature of 288K, or effectively 390.7 watts / m ^ 2, for an
effective magnification of 1.226
For the 120th time (okay, maybe it's only the 19th), the
temperature at the earth's surface is determined by the lapse rate and the level in the atmosphere at which the
temperature is constrained, which is the
effective radiating level, i.e., the
average level from which radiation can successfully escape to space.
Estimates of the Earth's
average albedo vary in the range 0.3 — 0.4, resulting in different estimated
effective temperatures.
The surface
temperature is the
effective radiative
temperature -LRB--18 C) plus the
average height of emission (5.5 km) times the (moist) adiabatic lapse rate (6 C / km).
If we assume that your 240 w / m2 is correct, we can use Stefan - Boltzman Law to calculate the «
effective» black body
temperature of the earth, which if you accept «
average» as an argument, would occur not at earth surface, but somewhere between earth surface and the top of the atmosphere.
for instance, the
average temperature can vary without varying the
effective temperature, that is with the same energy budget — and conversely.
What it does do, however, is raise the
effective radiating level in the atmosphere... i.e., the level at which the
temperature has to
average about 255 K.
When you double CO2, the
average effective radiative
temperature drops from about 255 K to about 254 K.
But the quietly forget that they are talking about +1 at the «
effective black body» temp of the earth, which is -19 as opposed to the
average surface
temperature which is +15.