Global Warming: The Great Deception by Guy Mitchell

Author:Guy Mitchell [Mitchell, Guy]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2022-03-13T00:00:00+00:00

chapter nine

The Thermodynamic Interactions with the Earth’s Atmosphere

The analytical complexity of a thermodynamic system is a function of the number of thermodynamic interactions that occur within the system or that cross the boundaries of that system. Given that definition, the Earth’s atmosphere is the most complex thermodynamic system in the biosphere to analyze with respect to climate science because it interacts with the land mass, oceans, and outer space, and is impacted by all the heat transfer mechanisms at work within each.

The Sun’s incoming radiation leaves outer space and enters the top of the Earth’s atmosphere through the layer known as the exosphere. It then proceeds through the various layers of the atmosphere as it makes its way down to the Earth’s surface. Along the way, some of that energy is reflected back into space by clouds and atmospheric components such as sulphate aerosols, and volcanic ash. It is also absorbed by ozone and water vapor in the atmosphere, and some is reflected back into the atmosphere by the Earth’s surface. The energy that reaches the Earth’s surface is absorbed and then transferred back to the atmosphere, and into space by various heat transfer mechanisms including convection, latent heat of vaporization, sensible heat loss and long wave infrared radiation emission (LWIR). Let’s examine the basic structure of the Earth’s atmosphere to understand what thermodynamic interactions occur in each one of them.

Earth’s Atmosphere

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