Sentences with phrase «equilibrium energy budget»

Our security system is developed to function within the realms of a balanced climate state — a situation with an equilibrium energy budget.

At the end of a climatic shift, the temperature setup of the entire planet will have changed — so far until a new equilibrium energy budget is reached.

Not exact matches

Using global climate models and NASA satellite observations of Earth's energy budget from the last 15 years, the study finds that a warming Earth is able to restore its temperature equilibrium through complex and seemingly paradoxical changes in the atmosphere and the way radiative heat is transported.

This is the amount by which the forcing mechanism would change the top - of - atmosphere energy budget, if the temperature were not allowed to change so as to restore equilibrium.

From the article: «The most likely value of equilibrium climate sensitivity based on the energy budget of the most recent decade is 2.0 °C, with a 5 — 95 % confidence interval of 1.2 — 3.9 °C»

In equilibrium, both the top of atmosphere and bottom of atmosphere energy budget must be satisfied of course, but there's no non-radiative heat flux to space.

There is a whole science to uppermost atmosphere physics, where a lot of stuff typically breaks down (like the ideal gas law and Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium which climatologists take for granted) but it's almost a different field all together with little, if any, influence on surface temperature and energy budget discussions.

The surface budget must close just like the top - of - atmosphere balance does at equilibrium, but the surface temperature will still be dragged along by the top of atmosphere energy budget.

The manuscript uses a simple energy budget equation (as employed e.g. by Gregory et al 2004, 2008, Otto et al 2013) to test the consistency between three recent «assessments» of radiative forcing and climate sensitivity (not really equilibrium climate sensitivity in the case of observational studies).

Equilibrium climate sensitivity is likely between 1.5 K to 4.5 K, with that range to likely increase to 2K to 4.5 K now that the errors in the energy - budget - model - based approaches (used by Lewis, Curry, and others) have been identified.

However what I do say is that if other factors alter albedo (or any other component of the global energy budget) then the jets will move in response to that other forcing in order to try to move back towards equilibrium between the temperature of the ocean surface and the temperature at the tropopause.

Energy budget estimates of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) and transient climate response (TCR) are derived based on the best estimates and uncertainty ranges for forcing provided in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Scientific Report (AR5).

Energy budget estimates of equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) and transient climate response (TCR) are derived using the comprehensive 1750 — 2011 time series and the uncertainty ranges for forcing components provided in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Working Group I Report, along with its estimates of heat accumulation in the climate system.

Earth is not at instant equilibrium (never at equilibrium at all), and there are many variables that can affect the energy budget at any instant.

Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity (ECS): the global mean surface warming necessary to balance the planetary energy budget after a doubling of atmospheric CO2.

But, at least to first - order, why can we usefully adopt a top - of - atmosphere (TOA) perspective to determine surface temperature, even though the surface energy budget must also close in equilibrium (and which includes many different non-radiative terms)?