A surface air temperature response function for earth's atmosphere

✍ Scribed by Sherwoord B. Idso

• Book ID: 104627884
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 386 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0006-8314
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00118255

✦ Synopsis

A property of Earth's atmosphere called the 'surface air temperature response function' is defined to be the change in surface air temperature that results from a change in radiant energy absorbed at the planet's surface. It is experimentally evaluated by three independent techniques to yield a value over land of 0.172 K (Wm-')-' while one of these techniques yields a value about half that great for stations on the extreme west coast ofthe United States. Computing an appropriate global upper hinit from these two results yields &value ofO.113 K (Wmm2)) ', which compares well with a fourth technique that yields a mean global value of 0.097 K (Wm-*)-'. The results imply an unexpected time-scale invariant response function.