Your graph shows absolutely
no presence of water vapour.
However, it is not just the heated air that starts to move the atmosphere it is
the presence of the water vapour itself.
5) Thus
the presence of water vapour and CO2 means that less energy is radiated into space from within their characteristic radiation bands so the temperature of the earth's surface has to increase in order for energy radiated at other wavelengths to increase to compensate.
The presence of water vapour reduces the actual lapse rate to about 6.5 C.
If CO2 behaves as claimed then surely the lapse rate will show this, especially in
presence of water vapour.
The presence of water vapour and carbon dioxide in the system is not doubted — nor the interactions with IR.
Not exact matches
[Response: There is a fundamental difference btw the stratosphere and the troposphere because
of the
presence of massive amounts
of water vapour — implying that the LW absorption is far more (spectrally) widespread than in the stratosphere.
There's one piece to that jigsaw which is not often discussed: the primary feedbacks (
water vapour, clouds), which ultimately determine the magnitude
of the imbalance, are mainly dependent on surface temperature change rather than the mere
presence of GHGs or related energy fluxes.
Water vapour is a gas whereas water is a liquid and to achieve that change of state a very large quantity of energy gets tied up in the molecules of vapour in latent form which means that it's presence is not reflected in the actual temperature ot the air which carrie
Water vapour is a gas whereas
water is a liquid and to achieve that change of state a very large quantity of energy gets tied up in the molecules of vapour in latent form which means that it's presence is not reflected in the actual temperature ot the air which carrie
water is a liquid and to achieve that change
of state a very large quantity
of energy gets tied up in the molecules
of vapour in latent form which means that it's
presence is not reflected in the actual temperature ot the air which carries it.