Sentences with phrase «maintain radiative equilibrium»
To say it a bit worse but in modern lingo: to maintain radiative equilibrium, the planet has to put out a certain amount of heat, and if it can't radiate it out from the surface, the lower atmosphere somehow has to get warmer until there's some level that radiates the right amount.
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This simple radiative example (convective transport is not being allowed) shows that any finite surface temperature Ts can be supported in radiative equilibrium with any arbitrarily cold «upper atmosphere» temperature Tt, by prescribing the appropriate LW opacity TAU for the atmospheric layer, with the energy required to maintain a fixed Ts adjusted accordingly.
The plane - tary radiative balance is maintained by the equilibrium cloud cover which is equal to the theoretical equilibrium clear sky transfer function.
(2) The following sentence gives the game away: It is assumed, that the equilibrium atmospheric structure is such, that the cloud cover alone is able to maintain the planetary radiative balance; He assumes that which is in doubt.
For those who want to check out the physics, read up the statistical thermodynamics which leads to Kirchhoff; s law of radiation and realise that «Prevost exchange energy» is needed to connect the IR density of states in the two objects in radiative equilibrium and maintain absorptivity = emissivity.
If it can not warm the oceans and yet the radiative balance between solar energy in and radiative energy out has to be maintained then all that is left is for it to be ejected faster to space in order to maintain the radiative balance and if that happens then no change in the equilibrium temperature of the Earth can occur.
A photon, better just a certain amount of energy, that just jumps around in the atmosphere does absolutely but to maintain equilibrium, radiative, temperature, pressure and density.