With regard to suricat's ideas: When someone conflates the ideas of liquid /
vapor phase transition with an El - Niño / La - Niña phase transition, and tries to bring in the Clausius - Clapeyron equation, I have to assume they are arguing by free - association.
Not exact matches
Condensation is a
phase transition of matter that occurs when water
vapor contained in hot, humid air comes in contact with a cold surface.
These customary
phase transitions manifest as an abrupt change in the state of matter such as ice melting to water, or water boiling to
vapor, at some critical temperature.
83 WebHubTelescope: Marler, you don't seriously believe that there is some new state of matter or new
phase transition that allows water
vapor to be a positive feedback from 255K to 288K but then do a U-turn and become a negative feedback when the temperature hits 289K?
The height redistribution in the atmosphere of condensation nuclei with a change of the electric field of the atmosphere is accompanied by a change in total latent heat (
phase transition of water
vapor), by changes in radiation balance, and by subsequent changes of the thermobaric field of troposphere.
Marler, you don't seriously believe that there is some new state of matter or new
phase transition that allows water
vapor to be a positive feedback from 255K to 288K but then do a U-turn and become a negative feedback when the temperature hits 289K?
Clausius - Clapeyron applies to water
vapor in the atmosphere just as it would apply to any other
phase transition.
The thermodynamics of water are simplified in that only the
vapor - liquid
phase transition is taken into account, and the latent heat of vaporization is taken to be constant, as in Frierson et al. (2006).
There is nothing in the
phase transition from solid ice, or liquid water, to H2O
vapor by sublimation or evaporation; that suddenly turns off the ability of those molecules to emit a BB like thermal continuum radiation spectrum according to Planck formula and other applicable laws (don't forget the emissivity).