Oct 02 2009
Say again?
It’s nine o’clock on a Friday,
The regular crowd shuffles in
With their buckets and mops, cleaners and socks
the nightly cleaning begins.
Yeah. I’m not a poet, but I am at work. T’was here until 2:00am “yesterday” night, and back in the chair by 10:00am “today”. So while everyone else is busy getting drunk tonight, I’m reading papers while enjoying a sandwich. Since you asked nicely, the one that caught my attention enough to write blog about it was Kiehl (1994).
This assumes that the clouds determining the cloud forcing are the optically thick cirrostratus clouds associated with deep convective cells. The tops of these clouds are indeed thought to be defined by the strong thermal stability directly above the tropical tropopause.
The strong thermal stability directly above the tropical tropopause? Perhaps caused by [[this phenomenon]]? That Wikipedia article is sadly typical of its dedication to quality. I suppose now that I’ve seen it I have an obligation to fix it. Since it was Kiehl’s paper that made me look it up, I’ll pass the buck to him.
* Kiehl, J., 1994: On the Observed Near Cancellation between Longwave and Shortwave Cloud Forcing in Tropical Regions. J. Climate, 7, 559–565.
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This is too obscure for me. I have found the quoted passage in Kiehl (1994), near the top of page 564.
But isn’t “thermal stability” due to the lack of convection?
What is the problem with wikipedia? What has thermal stability got to do with the particular temperature profile in the stratosphere, or the ozone-oxygen cycle? I’m lost.
Me too, I’m lost. XD
One more example that shows the low quality of wikipedia articles going deeper into stuff
Atmoz, the house of cards is falling, as I predicted almost 2 years ago, i.e., financial collapse = collapse of CAGW. Maybe you should look up “bubbles” on wikepedia. LOL.
interesting - this blog is dead, isn’t it?
Meanwhile, the fallout from Climategate is continuing to fall.