Sentences with phrase «radiative energy flux»

In other words, the reduced radiative energy flux must be compensated through increased temperatures or altered latent / sensible heat fluxes.

Karlsson (2017), An intercomparison and validation of satellite - based surface radiative energy flux estimates over the Arctic, J. Geophys.

Such large LHF increases are generally not realizable, because radiative energy flux changes are needed to evaporate the excess water.

Additional variables also being measured by Aqua include radiative energy fluxes, aerosols, vegetation cover on the land, phytoplankton and dissolved organic matter in the oceans, and air, land, and water temperatures.

Not exact matches

However, the colder ocean surface reduces upward radiative, sensible and latent heat fluxes, thus causing a large (∼ 50 W m − 2) increase in energy into the North Atlantic and a substantial but smaller flux into the Southern Ocean (Fig. 8c).

That's far from the worst flaw in his calculation, since his two biggest blunders are the neglect of the radiative cooling due to sulfate aerosols (known to be a critical factor in the period in question) and his neglect of the many links in the chain of physical effects needed to translate a top of atmosphere radiative imbalance to a change in net surface energy flux imbalance.

Energy fluxes into the ocean are a combination of radiative (LW + SW), sensible and latent (and a bunch of small terms associated with rivers, icebergs, sea ice etc.).

There are multiple non-radiative energy fluxes at the surface (latent and sensible heat fluxes predominantly) which obviously affect the atmospheric temperature profiles, but when it comes to outer paces, that flux is purely radiative.

Starting from an old equilbrium, a change in radiative forcing results in a radiative imbalance, which results in energy accumulation or depletion, which causes a temperature response that approahes equilibrium when the remaining imbalance approaches zero — thus the equilibrium climatic response, in the global - time average (for a time period long enough to characterize the climatic state, including externally imposed cycles (day, year) and internal variability), causes an opposite change in radiative fluxes (via Planck function)(plus convective fluxes, etc, where they occur) equal in magnitude to the sum of the (externally) imposed forcing plus any «forcings» caused by non-Planck feedbacks (in particular, climate - dependent changes in optical properties, + etc.).)

In radiative - convective equilibrium, the convergence of different energy fluxes (solar and LW radiation, summed over all frequencies, and convection / conduction / etc.)

As I have described before, there is a difference between energy transfers and radiative flux.

They are not measures of energy transfers, but of radiative flux (also called forcing).

That the radiative flux can be measured isn't relevant because only the net energy transfer is relevant.

where is the vertically integrated energy flux in the atmosphere, is the net radiative energy input to an atmospheric column (the difference between absorbed shortwave radiation and emitted longwave radiation), and is the oceanic energy uptake at the surface.

In summary, the LES framework with closed surface energy balance constrains the change in surface fluxes and especially LHF to be consistent with the radiative forcing, which is important for obtaining realizable MBL and low - cloud responses to warming.

Similarly, the cross-equatorial energy flux (~ -0.2 PW) represents a small residual imbalance between the two hemispheres which each have, for example, shortwave radiative energy gains and longwave radiative energy losses of tens of PW.

The higher energy state is then maintained by radiative flux.

For instance — changes in upwelling of frigid sub-surface water having an effect on clouds and that influencing global energy dynamics — as shown in satellite radiative flux data.

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«Because the solar - thermal energy balance of Earth [at the top of the atmosphere (TOA)-RSB- is maintained by radiative processes only, and because all the global net advective energy transports must equal zero, it follows that the global average surface temperature must be determined in full by the radiative fluxes arising from the patterns of temperature and absorption of radiation.»

Spencer's equation has a radiative forcing term (ANY radiative forcing) and a non-radiative flux term, the latter being energy ADDED to the surface - connected climate system.

And that the slight net radiative flux and the slight net kinetic energy flux exactly balance in opposite directions.

Looking again at the change in the TOA energy balance, we call this change the effective radiative forcing or radiative flux perturbation RFP.

The resulting reduction in radiative energy at Earth's surface may have attenuated evaporation and its energy equivalent, the latent heat flux (LH), leading to a slowdown of the water cycle.

Since a long - term lack of trend in GMST should indicate zero TOA radiative flux imbalance, this implies the existence of energy leakages within those models.

Quote: «The greenhouse effect theory would have us believe that trace gases in the atmosphere can absorb enough of that immense surface radiative flux to slow it down, which is nonsense, or to radiate enough back to warm the surface to a temperature higher than it is warmed by solar energy.

The TOA imbalance minus the net surface flux (from * all * fluxes, latent, radiative, etc.) gives the rate of change of the atmospheric energy content.

Just think about the even more simplified model where there is a isotope decay heat source at the center of the earth that generates sufficient energy to have a net outward radiative flux of 235 W / m ^ 2 at the Earth's surface.

Although we focus on a hypothesized CR - cloud connection, we note that it is difficult to separate changes in the CR flux from accompanying variations in solar irradiance and the solar wind, for which numerous causal links to climate have also been proposed, including: the influence of UV spectral irradiance on stratospheric heating and dynamic stratosphere - troposphere links (Haigh 1996); UV irradiance and radiative damage to phytoplankton influencing the release of volatile precursor compounds which form sulphate aerosols over ocean environments (Kniveton et al. 2003); an amplification of total solar irradiance (TSI) variations by the addition of energy in cloud - free regions enhancing tropospheric circulation features (Meehl et al. 2008; Roy & Haigh 2010); numerous solar - related influences (including solar wind inputs) to the properties of the global electric circuit (GEC) and associated microphysical cloud changes (Tinsley 2008).

These processes include arctic clouds and their radiative impacts, sea - ice albedo changes, surface energy fluxes, vertical momentum transfer, and ocean vertical heat transport.

The radiative heat transfer physics I am using is standard from long before climate science borrowed the incorrect two - stream approximation from astrophysics and made the mistake, from meteorology, of assuming a pyrometer measures energy flux instead of a temperature signal.

And what's the relationship between that energy flux and TOA radiative imbalance?

Almost three quarters of the energy of all radiative forcings was used to increase the turbulent fluxes and hence water vapour in the atmosphere.

[1] Total absorbed radiation (TAR), the sum of SNR [shortwave net radiation] and LDR [longwave downward radiation], represents the total radiative energy available to maintain the Earth's surface temperature and to sustain the turbulent (sensible and latent) heat fluxes in the atmosphere.

Natural or anthropogenic CO2 in the atmosphere induces a «radiative forcing» ΔF, defined by IPCC (2001: ch.6.1) asa change in net (down minus up) radiant - energy flux at the tropopause in response to a perturbation.

In other words, a bigger share of the 240 W / m 2 of the vertical energy transport will be transported by convective / advective means with a stronger GHE, and a smaller share by radiative means because the sum of convective vertical energy transport plus the diminished radiative flux must add up to about 240 W / m 2 in order to balance the incoming shortwave radiation.

The conceptual picture of the GHE can be examined in terms of estimates of Z T254K, the» fuzziness» of the OLR, and a quantification of the vertical energy flow associated with other forms than radiative fluxes.

The fundamental equation of radiative transfer at the emitting surface of an astronomical body, relating changes in radiant - energy flux to changes in temperature, is the Stefan - Boltzmann equation --

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.

whereF is radiant - energy flux at the emitting surface; εis emissivity, set at 1 for a blackbody that absorbs and emits all irradiance reaching its emitting surface (by Kirchhoff's law of radiative transfer, absorption and emission are equal and simultaneous), 0 for a whitebody that reflects all irradiance, and (0, 1) for a graybody that partly absorbs / emits and partly reflects; and σ ≈ 5.67 x 10 — 8 is the Stefan - Boltzmann constant.

Su — Fo (= Su — OLR (= G)-RRB- represents a net upward LW energy flow in the atmosphere, (Ed — Eu)(= G) represents a net downward LW flux (as we said: Ed is the downwelling radiative heating, Eu has it energetic source in the sum of K and F).

Here, the GHE will, for all intents and purposes, be defined as the set of conditions that are responsible for discrepancy between the observed global mean surface temperature of a planet and that predicted based on the energy flux received from the sun, rather than being restricted to a mere radiative balance.

Temperatures are buffered while the radiative flux soaks «into / out of» latent heat because, loosely speaking, the latency due to phase change alters the energy capacity for the region.

The increased temperature of the whole troposphere increases all the energy fluxes into the surface, not just the radiative ones.

My approach in the paper (the application example in http://www.springerlink.com/content/6677gr5lx8421105/fulltext.pdf) is that we can directly use the energy conservation equation to analyze the climate feedbacks which essentially are the changes in the energy cycle of the climate system, including both the radiative feedbacks and also dynamic feedbacks (surface heat fluxes and atmospheric / oceanic energy transport feedbacks).