Sentences with phrase «radiative budget»

This is a very important number, and probably the most relevant number as we progress into the 21st century, but paleoclimate studies are primarily focused on the equilibrium response (i.e., after the oceans have warmed up sufficiently to allow the top of atmosphere radiative budget to be balanced).

Referring to Chris»: ``... only similar in that regions above the tropopause are typically optically thin enough to not matter much for the net radiative budget...»

It is concluded that atmospheric feedback diagnosis of the climate system remains an unsolved problem, due primarily to the inability to distinguish between radiative forcing and radiative feedback in satellite radiative budget observations.

So while radiative budgeting looks quite attractive from a naive perspective, it is fraught with problems and guesswork that, I believe, render it pretty worthless — at least insofar as being a one - variable descriptor of global - scale climate trends.

We claim they can, and have demonstrated so with both phase space plots of observed temperature versus Earth radiative budget variations here, and with lag - regression plots of the same data here, and with a forcing - feedback model of the average climate system in both of those publications....

Shaviv N. (2005) On Climate Response to Changes in the Cosmic Ray Flux and Radiative Budget, Journal of Geophysical Research, 110, 1 - 15.

The change in climate feedback is mainly associated with a decrease in marine tropical low cloud... and with a less negative lapse - rate feedback, as expected from a decrease in stability... Relationships qualitatively similar to those in the models among sea - surface temperature pattern, stability, and radiative budget are also found in observations...

But on larger scales (both in space and time) the earth is a planet of our local star; the sun is our only source of (purely radiative) energy; we have an atmosphere which clearly operates to reduce diurnal variations in temperature (which on black body basis would otherwise be huge, on human scale) and the radiative budget must always be exactly in balance.

Clouds are, in fact, probably the dominant influence in the radiative budget of the lower atmosphere but adequately taking them into account raises many problems -LSB--RSB- The Physics of Atmospheres, p. 41.

The first cartoon about the radiative budget (K / T) has always bothered me for this reason.

A lot of confusion seems to lie in not realizing that all the energy entering and leaving at the TOA is radiative, and as a result of this the effect of the non radiative fluxes from the surface (from latent heat of water and thermals) on the radiative budget has to be zero, because COE dictates that the atmosphere can not create any energy of its own.

Assuming 1 % hydrate by pore water volume were released on average from the slide volume, you get a methane release of about 0.8 Gton of C. Even if all of the hydrate made it to the atmosphere, it would have had a smaller climate impact than a volcanic eruption (I calculated the methane impact on the radiative budget here).