Extremal principles for global climate m
โ
S. D. Mobbs
๐
Article
๐
1982
๐
John Wiley and Sons
๐
English
โ 925 KB
## Abstract Paltridge has recently hypothesized that the mean global climate operates near a state of maximum entropy production. In this paper an attempt is made to justify this hypothesis by parametrizing the eddy heat fluxes in terms of eddy diffusivities and using the local potential method of