Not exact matches
I
do happen to understand radiative energy transfer at a reasonable level — at least enough to understand than when the surface loses energy
via radiation, its temperature drops.
But if you have a thermal gradient, it
does slow the transfer of heat
via infrared
radiation from one side of the gradient to the other.
Only now heat can leave the black body
via conduction and convection as well as
radiation, so I don't want to say the black body reaches
radiation - rate - equilibrium, rather it reaches energy - rate - equilibrium.
Doesn't this make heat release by IR
radiation part of the process at a molecular level, or is heat release by dissipation
via gas to droplet collisions much more dominant?
The planet doesn't just lose it's energy
via the atmospheric window, it loses substantial amounts
via radiation by GHGs.
«All the energy that enters or leaves the Earth system
does so
via radiation at the top of the atmosphere.
But don't take to much notice of me as I also believe that Advection i.e. the kind of horizontal air movements that follow isobaric surfaces and therefore are predominantly horizontal) have got more of a Green House Effect (GHE) than
does a
radiation circuit, of say 324 W / m ² originally removed from the surface, and then returned
via Green House Gases (GHGs)-- which, by the way, show no sign of having warmed at all (no hot spot) But even so, when somehow the same 324 W / m ² are delivered back to the surface for absorption it is supposed to be getting warmer.
-- Heat is the product of work
done by energy provided by an energy source, in this case the Sun's energy
via the curtesy of
radiation.
-- The surface is, in the EFC, shown to absorb 168 W / m ² of incoming Solar
radiation, but
does not even attempt to conserve any energy as it gets rid of (24 +78) = 102 W / m ²
via thermals and «evapo - transpiration» and then in stead of being contented with radiating away the remaining 66 W / m ², it sends out a whopping 390 W / m ²
There is no input for back
radiation in any heat transfer equation so taking as if it
does something can not be shown
via standard equations.
To my way of reasoning, if the basics of the EFC is correct, then it would be reasonable to accept that the result of the 168 W / m ² absorbed by the surface would be that (24 +78) = 102 W / m ² are leaving in the form of thermals and «evapo - transpiration» and then the remaining energy 66 W / m ², after having
done it's job, would leave
via radiation.