atmospheric physics, Tag

This final part of the series explores the issue of regulation of Earth’s climate in light of a small, continuing imbalance between energy input from Sol, and outgoing LWIR - the so-called Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI)...

Undoubtedly clouds act to lower Earth temperature from what it would be under a cloudless planet – an obvious negative feedback in this sense. However, from the standpoint of orthodox climate science this large effect is...

The daily variation in Earth’s geometric relationship with the sun correlates well with observed temperature trends and also gives some indication of weather extremes from-year-to-year.  The coming changes in Earth’s...

CO2 and VPD are confounded.  To understand and manage climate change science needs to find out which one is in charge.  Man knew about CO2 and its greenhouse properties before cloud reduction was observed and the VPD and...

Even if Earth’s atmosphere were more opaque than it presently is  (greater optical depth), radiation from the surface would still make its way skyward...

Just as in Part I, in Part II I find numbers applied to fundamental concepts that are small but with uncertainty estimates I cannot reconcile nor find entirely credible...

It’s another case where observations don’t match the script. The “warming equals wetter” narrative takes a hit when a natural factor like wind can call the shots. It’s not a knockout blow to climate orthodoxy—evaporation...

With new data and input from readers, CRGW theory has been evolving over the 7 essays already published in WUWT.  This essay suggests that cascading natural steps in CRGW theory are real and significant contributor to global...

Through his analysis, Koutsoyiannis calls for a reorientation of climate research, urging the scientific community to afford greater attention to hydrology and to reconsider CO₂’s central role in climate models...

The climate is changing, and the geological record of climate change clearly shows that (a) we live in an unusually cold climate, (b) recent warming is neither dangerous or unusual, and (c) the main drivers of climate change...

In about 120 million years we will finally cross the Sagittarius spiral arm. We will exit this Ice House with its periodic glacial ages and enter the next Hot House inter-arm space on our way into the next spiral arm region...

Evapotranspiration, ET, is defined as the total amount water flux evaporated into the atmosphere from surface and plant (dew) Evaporation and plant Transpiration.  ET is a term used in agriculture water management to aid...

When I began this effort I expected to discover that my search for energy imbalance would find a very small number with a very large uncertainty. This is exactly what I found. In addition, I was surprised to see that estimates...

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.