atmospheric physics, Tag

The high VPD air mixes with passing air in the lower cloud zone (cumulus clouds altitude) and retards cloud formation somewhere.

This paper will explore the relationship between global VPD and global Cloud Fraction (Cover), CC.

It is experimentally shown that the thermal radiation from a transparent, colder solid has the capacity to influence a solid warmer than it to become even warmer, under the right circumstances.

I present arguments that support the view that we are facing an extraordinary and extremely rare natural event in climate history.

The atmosphere is not static. It is dynamic and it is bootstrapping its way into a deeper and deeper layer of instability.

The atmosphere is less a heat engine than a collection of many self-running refrigerators/dehumidifiers operating in different ways to carry heat largely from surface to tropopause locally and the balance from equator to...

As at its current concentration atmospheric CO2 at 420 ppmv is already more than 85% saturated,  its Global warming potential is almost entirely exhausted.

”...no one knows just how the complicated climate system of Earth’s atmosphere will respond to the small forcings [of GHGs].”

Is it possible that the Effective Radiative Forcing (ERF) of a small change in GHG forcing is a lot lower than the ERF for a similar change in solar forcing? This essay attempts to make this case.

entitling such a paper “Exceptional stratospheric contribution to human fingerprints on atmospheric temperature” is essentially a non sequitur on the issue of global warming.

Thermospheric cooling, CO2 and models are proved again, bad for satellites. Thermospheric warming, it's that damn sun and its storms, bad for satellites.

Nitrous oxide (N20) has now joined carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) in the climate alarm proponents’ pantheon of anthropogenic “demon” gases.

For the anthropogenic part it’s pretty clear: with a growth to a maximum CO2-level of 560 ppm, even under a realistic ‘business as usual’ scenario [11], there is certainly no more than about 0.4oC to go.

The climate system comprises the fluid envelopes of Earth: the atmosphere, oceans, and cryosphere. Those constituents, along with the evolving surface properties of the solid lithosphere, are responsible for reflecting some...

HOW THE SUN AND INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE (ITCZ) CONTROLLED CLIMATE AND CIVILIZATION COLLAPSES Jim Steele To ensure we properly adapt to future devastating weather events, we must correctly understand natural…