Temperature limitation by evaporation in hot climates and the greenhouse effects of water vapor and carbon dioxide
✍ Scribed by S.B. Idso
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1982
- Weight
- 282 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-1571
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✦ Synopsis
Idso, S.B. 1982
. Temperature hn~tation by evaporahon in hot climates and the greenhouse effects of water vapor and carbon dioxide. Agric. Meteorol., 27: 105--109.
Simple energy balance considerations and historic temperature data mdlcate that there are rather sharply defined upper limits to which air temperature may rise above the tropical oceans and expansive well-watered terrestrial surfaces. Measurements of full-spectrum and 10.5--12.5pm thermal radiation from the cloudless atmosphere indicate that an analogous temperature limit also exists for other land areas of the globe, thereby greatly restricting the magnitude of climatic change that may occur as a result of the greenhouse effects of increasing concentratlons of atmospheric water vapor and carbon dioxide.