Sentences with phrase «small solar radiative»
Such changes are apparently sufficient to trigger major changes in climate — implying that the Earth's climate system may be more sensitive to small solar radiative perturbations than one might think.
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There are lots of experts on small subsets of all the physics that go into climate, radiative physics, clouds, aerosol, oceans, multi-decadal oscillations, solar, global ice, etc..
To understand why solar influence is so small, it's helpful to compare the radiative forcing from a cooling sun to the radiative forcing from anthropogenic greenhouse gases.
«In comparison, changes in solar irradiance since 1750 are estimated to have caused a small radiative forcing of +0.12 [+0.06 to +0.30] W / m2, which is less than half the estimate given in the TAR.»
A small localized change in surface temperature can cause a convection burst (thunderstorm) and a large increase in convection height, improving both reflection of incoming solar radiation, and conveying sensible heat to a higher altitude where it can then escape to space via radiative processes with far less interference.
Arking found that the «Effects of bias in solar radiative transfer codes» to be «quite small and in most cases negligible.»
I have also studied, for example, the effects of snow grain shape on the reflection of solar radiation by snow, and the effects of subgrid - scale cloud features (clouds too small to be resolved by a climate model) on radiative transfer.