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Above is an early "Energy Budget" diagram for Earth published by NASA. The only trouble is that when we quantify the 51% of solar energy shown as being absorbed by land and oceans we get about one-eighth of the solar constant, resulting in a figure of about 168w/m^2 that could not achieve a global mean temperature above 233K which is -40°C. Yes, that is a minus sign, and yes
The tropospheric temperature gradient (first explained by physicist Josef Loschmidt in the 1870's) is called the "lapse rate" by climatologists, but it has nothing to do with any "rising parcels or air" that are supposedly warmed by conduction at the surface interface. In fact, there is nothing to hold together any such "parcels" in calm conditions because molecules move at
The Second Law of Thermodynamics correctly stated reads: "In a natural thermodynamic process the sum of the entropies of the interacting thermodynamic systems never decreases." The word "thermodynamic" refers not only to processes involving heat (thermo) but also to ones involving motion (dynamics) such as the redistribution of air molecules due to gravity when a sealed
A universal framework describing the scrambling of quantum information in open systems phys.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from phys.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.