tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500584444083499721.post5151517102440457194..comments2024-03-24T09:28:42.755+01:00Comments on CJ on Mathematics and Science: OLR Spectra Decoded as Fake!? Claes Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07411413338950388898noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1500584444083499721.post-4019500067348458182013-11-25T22:08:30.388+01:002013-11-25T22:08:30.388+01:00oh boy... i actually ended up here looking for the...oh boy... i actually ended up here looking for the location a student of mine copied his homework from (no, nothing climate. just a parameter space conversion of electromagnetic spectra). and now i tear my hair...<br /><br />i get the strong feeling you should stay with maths and keep away from physics. at least from atmospheric physics and radiative transfer (or maybe you completely doubt that theory? chandrasekar having only done bullshit?).<br /><br />"as if the sensor has recorded the presence of CO2 both at the tropopause (220 K) and in the middle of the troposphere (250 K)."<br />"cannot distinguish between low emissivity/high temperature and high emissivity/low temperature"<br /><br />first, you are aware that CO2 is a long-lived trace gas, so it's well mixed in the atmosphere and exists in the middle troposphere as well as around the tropopause. hey, man, even in the stratosphere and mesosphere. incredible, isn't it? (maybe some conspiracy?)<br /><br />second, ever got that emissivity is an "effective" parameter and does not make too much sense for understanding transparent media, particularly such that are not homogeneous, e.g. regarding temperature?<br /><br />the higher brightness temperature in the band center results from absorption getting so high, that transmission reaches close to zero already in the stratosphere (emissivity reaching 1!) and atmosphere radiates like a blackbody at the ambient temperature. which is - tataaa - higher than around the tropopause. obviously somewhat above 250K.<br />a little further into the wings, transmission approaches zero somewhat lower in the atmosphere, where it is colder. so blackbody emission from ambient temperature produces lower intensities.<br />wonders of the earth....<br /><br />ah, f***. i forgot einstein again. idiot i am.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com