Climate: It’s All About the Sun!!! Or, Is It? Chris Fairall, NOAA ESRL Introduction, background on climate system Black body radiation basics The sun vs.

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Climate: It’s All About the Sun!!! Or, Is It? Chris Fairall, NOAA ESRL Introduction, background on climate system Black body radiation basics The sun vs earth as blackbodies Mean radiative balance of the earth Greenhouse effect made (deceptively) simple Tropics vs poles Global circulations The sun vs CO2: A global warming question

Introduction, background on climate system The Earth climate system maintains a balance between solar energy absorbed and IR (blackbody) energy radiated to space. The so-called Greenhouse effect distributes the temperature in the atmosphere so that the surface is much warmer than the mean radiative temperature. Currents and Winds redistribute the heat within the System – principally cooling the equatorial regions and warming the poles.

SOEE3410 : Atmosphere and Ocean Climate Change4 Incoming solar radiation 342 W m 2 Reflected by clouds, aerosol & atmosphere Reflected by surface Absorbed by surface Absorbed by atmosphere 67 thermals 24 Evapo- transpiration Surface radiation Absorbed by surface reflected solar radiation 107 W m 2 back radiation emitted by atmosphere 165 Outgoing longwave radiation 235 W m 2

SOEE3410 : Atmosphere and Ocean Climate Change5 Contributions to global ocean-atmosphere energy budget Energy Flux (W m -2 ) Solar radiation230 Rate of kinetic energy dissipation2 Photosynthesis-0.1 Geothermal heat flux0.06 World energy production (fossil fuels)0.02

SOEE3410 : Atmosphere and Ocean Climate Change From Animation of monthly net Short-Wave (solar) radiation (W/m 2 )

Ferrel Cell Polar Cell Idealized model of atmospheric circulation. N.B. actual circulations are not continuous in space or time Net Radiation Heat Transport SOEE3410 : Coupled Ocean & Atmosphere Climate Dynamics Revision

How do we know? We can trace CO2 from Human production. WWHH Wwwldaf Why is Ocean The Big Boss? It has 10,000 times the mass of the Atmosphere. How long would it take 5 W/m 2 to warm the atmosphere 1 C? 15 days How long would it take 5 W/m 2 to warm the ENTIRE ocean 1 C? 80 years BUT – It is very, very difficult to push surface heat down into the ocean. In fact, you can only push surface COLD down

SOEE3410 : Atmosphere and Ocean Climate Change 10 IPCC :

Google Search “Global Warming Hoax” 1,530,000 hits Add “Solar” get 248,000 hits Used in UK 2007 TV Show ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ ites/G/great_global_warming_swindle/ Figure from DeFreitas Article *Use sunspot cycle length, not solar flux *Graphs stop in 1980 *Don’t mention stratosphere (i.e., greenhouse cools stratosphere but solar increase would warm it) Solar Variations and Global Warming

F=0.08 ε=0.89 σ=5.67E-8 A=0.34 S 0 = W/m 2 Tg=14.84 C S 0 =1365 W/m 2 Tg=14.76 C Change = 0.08 C S 0 =1362 W/m 2 Tg=14.60 C Change = 0.24 C

Can I Duplicate Their Resuts?

What Has Happened Since 1980? Lower Stratosphere Temperature