Radiation-entropy influx as a measure of planetary dissipative processes

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Jul 1989

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989kosis..27..617i&link_type=abstract

Kosmicheskie Issledovaniia (ISSN 0023-4206), vol. 27, July-Aug. 1989, p. 617-626. In Russian.

Physics

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Earth Radiation Budget, Energy Dissipation, Entropy, Heat Budget, Planetary Atmospheres, Earth Atmosphere, Heat Flux, Solar Radiation, Thermal Radiation, Thermodynamics

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It is suggested that the influx of negentropy arising due to the difference in the fluxes of incoming solar radiation and outgoing thermal radiation of the planet can serve as a measure of the dissipative processes occurring on planets. The greater part of the negentropy is consumed in vertical heat fluxes maintaining the temperature regime of the planet. On earth the next greatest part of the negentropy goes into the evaporation of water; the remaining part goes mainly into dynamics, which explains the low efficiency of the 'heat machine' producing motions in the atmosphere and ocean. On Venus, where there is practically no water, a considerably greater part of the negentropy influx goes into atmospheric motions than on earth.

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