In 1997, the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility established research sites on the North Slope of Alaska (NSA), to provide data about cloud and
radiative processes in cold environments and high latitudes.
It is the non GHGs which participate more in non
radiative processes of energy transfer and since those methods of energy transfer are slower than radiation then one would think that the more energy that is tied up in them the warmer the system should become.
, there is a lot of interesting stuff going on in Antarctica: the complexities of different forcings (ozone in particular), the importance of dynamical as well
as radiative processes, and the difficulties of dealing with very inhomogeneous and insufficiently long data series.
The so called effective radiating height is not determined by the S - B Law because it is situated within the atmosphere and is therefore influenced by
non radiative processes from both above and below.
Chemistry and climate: Atmospheric composition plays an integral role in the climate system, with feedbacks on both dynamical and
radiative processes throughout the atmosphere.
The evaporative, conductive and
radiative processes combined then set up a thermal gradient causing an upward flow of energy from water to air from where that 1 mm layer touches the ocean bulk below, up across the cooler layer then to the Knudsen layer by reversing the normal (warm at the top and cool at the bottom) temperature gradient which exists from that 1 mm layer down to the ocean bottom.
The tropospheric lapse rate is maintained mostly by convective transports of heat upwards, in thunderstorms and thunderstorm complexes, including mesoscale disturbances, various waves and tropical storms,
while radiative processes serve to cool the troposphere.
2) Failing to acknowledge that natural variations in the effective radiating height of the atmosphere occur all the time as a result of the ever changing balance between different non
radiative processes within the atmosphere.
They intercept radiance from the surface resulting in heating at altitude
via radiative processes as well as at the bottom from conductance and evaporation.
In 1997, the ARM Climate Research Facility established research sites on the North Slope of Alaska to provide data about cloud and
radiative processes in cold environments and high latitudes.
His main current research interests are high energy astrophysics, especially gamma ray bursts, galactic nuclei, black hole formation and
radiative processes (including gravitational waves) and cosmic structure formation, especially the early generation of stars and galaxies that formed at high redshifts at the end of the cosmic «dark age».
This radiative process of localized absorption and emission of thermal radiation establishes a temperature gradient within the atmosphere, and in so doing, results in heating the ground surface to a higher temperature than would be the case with no atmosphere.
So far as I am aware, the process of condensation of water vapor, to form liquid water, is a purely thermal process; not
a radiative process.
«The Response of a Spectral General Circulation Model to Refinements in
Radiative Processes.»
The climate system includes a variety of physical processes, such as cloud processes,
radiative processes and boundary - layer processes, which interact with each other on many temporal and spatial scales.
In discussion of evaluating climate model output with satellite measurments, Chapter 9 references the study of Iacono et al. (2003) that evaluated the climate model of the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and identified biases related to water vapor and
radiative processes.
The greenhouse effect theory relies on the assumption that
radiative processes can alter the thermal energy profile of the atmosphere, e.g., heat the troposphere and cool the stratosphere.
In the end, we found that the most plausible definitions all explicitly (or implicitly) relied on the assumption that the Earth's atmosphere is only in local thermodynamic equilibrium, i.e., that an individual «air parcel» is thermodynamically isolated from its neighbouring parcels except by
radiative processes.
1) Mr Squid says the atmosphere in the dark side slows the rate of cooling and not through
a radiative process.
The existence of that cooler layer with the temperature discontinuity 1 mm below the surface is entirely a result of the fact that the evaporative process is a more effective energy transport system than the separate conductive and
radiative processes.