Sentences with phrase «radiation balance»

Changes in climate zone distribution will always be a result of any changes in atmospheric composition that affect the net radiation balance of the entire atmosphere.

We can quantify the impact on radiation balance quite effectively.

Drivers of the land climate system have larger effects at regional and local scales than on global climate, which is controlled primarily by processes of global radiation balance.

A simple radiation balance model only needs incoming solar energy and albedo.

We can globally average over these temperatures calculated on the local radiation balance equations.

It's true that particular radiation balance doesn't explain the greenhouse effect.

The solar - cloud connection is quite real (after two satellite measured sun cycles), but can't explain the rather fast and huge changes in radiation balance over the previous period.

This is consistent with the finding that reduced warming is not mainly a result of a change in radiation balance but due to oceanic heat storage.

In equilibrium, global temperature is indeed directly determined by the global radiation balance.

Recently, I have been trying to determine the «physical climate science basis» for the effect of clouds on radiation balance.

In that survey, it was almost universal that groups tuned for radiation balance at the top of the atmosphere (usually by adjusting uncertain cloud parameters), but there is a split on pratices like using flux corrections (2 / 3rds of groups disagreed with that).

A 2014 survey found «it was almost universal that [modeling] groups tuned for radiation balance at the top of the atmosphere (usually by adjusting uncertain cloud parameters),» Hourdin et al. (2016).

-- The basis for this explanation is the equation of the planetary radiation balance given in my comment # 770.

They got 10 pages in Science, which is a lot, but in it they cover radiation balance, 1D and 3D modelling, climate sensitivity, the main feedbacks (water vapour, lapse rate, clouds, ice - and vegetation albedo); solar and volcanic forcing; the uncertainties of aerosol forcings; and ocean heat uptake.

But the point I want to make is that the model presented here (and many other places), of warming the atmosphere each time longwave radiation is absorbed and re-emitted, seems to me to be in conflict with radiation balance model presented by Raypierre, where the key factor is the temperature of the greenhouse gas molecules that radiate into space, usually high in the atmosphere.

The anticipated increase in temperature was predicted long before it was detectable in the atmosphere, indeed long before it was known that atmospheric CO2 really was increasing; it was first predicted by Arrhenius in 1896 using extremely simple radiation balance ideas, and was reproduced using modern radiation physics by Manabe and co-workers in the 1960's.

The reflectivity of Arctic sea ice, or albedo, regulates the solar radiation balance.

The particles can affect Earth's radiation balance directly through scattering or absorption of sunlight and indirectly through forming cloud condensation nuclei.

ENSO changes the cloud cover and water vapour amounts and so you would expect it to affect the Top - of - the - atmosphere radiation balance which changes the overall amount of heat in the system.

Re 167 I think 142 is right about convection but wrong about the TOA radiation balance constraint.

Arctic amplification is the phenomenon where changes in the net radiation balance due to greenhouse gas levels, for instance, tend to produce a larger increase in temperature near the poles than the planetary average.