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The Effects of Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide on Atmospheric Temperature

The effects of water vapor and carbon dioxide on temperature and heat transfer in the troposphere layer, which is less than the altitude of 10 km, in the atmosphere are presented in this work. Accounting for realistic temperature- and pressure- or concentration-dependent radiative properties, this work systematically evaluates heat transfer encountered in atmosphere. For simplicity, the heat transfer is assumed to be one-dimensional and pure conduction and radiation modes. The solar irradiation penetrates through the atmosphere within its short wavelength range near around visible range between 0.4-0.7 £gm , and absorbed and reflected by the earth ground with a black body property. The ground emits radiation in longwave range. Water vapor is transparent to longwave range 8-12 £gm , whereas carbon dioxide is absorbed in three long wavelength bands centered at 15, 10.4 and 9.4 £gm , respectively. The computed results quantitatively show that water vapor and carbon dioxide are the most important factors affecting temperature difference around 2 and 5 Celsius degrees.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0811109-160253
Date11 August 2009
CreatorsYen, Da-lung
ContributorsFei-Bin Hsiao, Jiin-Yuh Jang, Han-Taw Chen, Peng-Sheng Wei, Ming-San Lee
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0811109-160253
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