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radiativeconvectiveequilibrium [2025/02/06 12:29] – [Turn off convection] adminradiativeconvectiveequilibrium [2025/02/09 16:48] (current) admin
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 ===== Radiative Convective Equilibrium ===== ===== 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 This page describes a series of simulations
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-  * **stn**, standard lapse rate of 6.5 K km^-1is 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   * **mst**, moist adiabatic lapse rate is used for the convective adjustment
   * **rad**, no convective adjustment, and no sensible heat flux from the surface   * **rad**, no convective adjustment, and no sensible heat flux from the surface
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   * model label: **stn**   * model label: **stn**
   * Convective adjustment with the standard lapse rate.   * 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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 ==== Turn off convection ==== ==== Turn off convection ====
 +<WRAP center 50%>
 ^ {{ :stn_radw.png }} ^ ^ {{ :stn_radw.png }} ^
 |**radw** has specific humidity retained from  **stn**.  The convective adjustment and the sensible heat flux from the surface is turned off.| |**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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-== Moist adiabatic adjustment ==+==== Moist adiabatic adjustment ====
  
  
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-<WRAP 50%>+<WRAP center 50%>
 ^ {{ :mst_mst2xw_mst2x_mx.png }} ^ ^ {{ :mst_mst2xw_mst2x_mx.png }} ^
 | The mixing ratio.  Notice the red overlies the blue.| | The mixing ratio.  Notice the red overlies the blue.|
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 ==== Increase solar radiation ==== ==== Increase solar radiation ====
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 +^ {{ :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,,.|| + 
----- +<WRAP center 50%> 
-||{{attachment:stn_stnsolw_stnsol_mx.png}}||The mixing ratio.||+{{ :stn_stnsolw_stnsol_mx.png }} 
 +|The mixing ratio.| 
 +</WRAP>
  
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