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--- radiativeconvectiveequilibrium [2025/02/06 12:19] – [Double CO2] admin
+++ radiativeconvectiveequilibrium [2025/02/09 16:48] (current) – admin
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 ===== Radiative Convective Equilibrium =====
-//2025 Revision in progress//
+Here is the code: {{ :radcon_2025.tar.gz }} {{ :crm_2025.tar.gz |}}
 This page describes a series of simulations
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-  * **stn**, standard lapse rate of 6.5 K km^-1^ is used for the convective adjustment
+  * **stn**, standard lapse rate of 6.5 K km<sup>-1</sup> is used for the convective adjustment
   * **mst**, moist adiabatic lapse rate is used for the convective adjustment
   * **rad**, no convective adjustment, and no sensible heat flux from the surface
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   * model label: **stn**
   * Convective adjustment with the standard lapse rate.
-  * **Note:** the final input file to the CRM, and thus one consistent with radiative convective equilibrium, is offered at [[http://12characters.net/xcrm/crm.cgi | CRM Online]] as '''radconeq.in'''.  For your information, that file is also [[RadiativeConvectiveEquilibriumInput | here]], but with the temperature replaced by a ''*'', because those numbers are continually updated by the model.
+  * **Note:** the final input file to the CRM, and thus one consistent with radiative convective equilibrium, is offered at [[http://12characters.net/xcrm/crm.cgi | CRM Online]] as ''radconeq.in''.
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-<WRAP center 85% >
+<WRAP center 50% >
 ^ {{ :stn_stn2xw_stn2x_mx.png }} ^
 | The mixing ratio.  Notice the red curve overlies the blue.|
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 ==== Turn off convection ====
+<WRAP center 50%>
+^ {{ :stn_radw.png }} ^
+|**radw** has specific humidity retained from  **stn**.  The convective adjustment and the sensible heat flux from the surface is turned off.|
+</WRAP>
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-||{{attachment:stn_radw.png}}||'''radw''' has specific humidity retained from  '''stn'''.  The convective adjustment and the sensible heat flux from the surface is turned off.||
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+^ {{ :stn_radw_mx.png }} ^
-||{{attachment:stn_radw_mx.png}}|| Specific humidity is invariant.  If plotted with respect to pressure levels, these curves would overlap.  But, being plotted with respect to z levels, they don't.||
+| Specific humidity is invariant.  If plotted with respect to pressure levels, these curves would overlap.  But, being plotted with respect to z levels, they don't.|
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-== Moist adiabatic adjustment ==
+==== Moist adiabatic adjustment ====
+^ {{ :mst_mst2xw_mst2x.png }} ^
+|As in the *stn* simulations, but using the moist adiabatic lapse rate.  The moist adiabatic lapse rate decreases as temperature increases.  This property leads to a negative feedback in global warming forced by radiation. The specific comparison demonstrating the negative feedback is to compare the $\Delta T$ in **mst2x** with **stn2x**.|
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-||{{attachment:mst_mst2xw_mst2x.png}}||As in the '''stn''' simulations, but using the moist adiabatic lapse rate.  The moist adiabatic lapse rate decreases as temperature increases.  This property leads to a negative feedback in global warming forced by radiation. The specific comparison demonstrating the negative feedback is to compare the &Delta;T in '''mst2x''' with '''stn2x'''.||
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+<WRAP center 50%>
-||{{attachment:mst_mst2xw_mst2x_mx.png}}||The mixing ratio.  Notice the red overlies the blue.||
+^ {{ :mst_mst2xw_mst2x_mx.png }} ^
+| The mixing ratio.  Notice the red overlies the blue.|
+</WRAP>
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 ==== Increase solar radiation ====
+^ {{ :stn_stnsolw_stnsol.png }} ^
+|Warming forced by changing the solar constant in the model from 700 W m<sup>-2</sup> to 710 W m<sup>-2</sup>. The model has fixed zenith angle, with cosine=0.5. So the change in incoming solar radiation is 5 W m<sup>-2</sup>.  Being cloudless, the model has an albedo of approximately 0.16.  So the radiative forcing at the top of the atmosphere is 4.2 W m<sup>-2</sup>, comparable to double CO2.|
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-||{{attachment:stn_stnsolw_stnsol.png}}||Warming forced by changing the solar constant in the model from 700 W m^-2^ to 710 W m^-2^. The model has fixed zenith angle, with cosine=0.5. So the change in incoming solar radiation is 5 W m^-2^.  Being cloudless, the model has an albedo of approximately 0.16.  So the radiative forcing at the top of the atmosphere is 4.2 W m^-2^, comparable to double CO,,,2,,.||
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+<WRAP center 50%>
-||{{attachment:stn_stnsolw_stnsol_mx.png}}||The mixing ratio.||
+^ {{ :stn_stnsolw_stnsol_mx.png }} ^
+|The mixing ratio.|
+</WRAP>