THE STABLE STATIONARY VALUE OF THE EARTH'S

GLOBAL AVERAGE ATMOSPHERIC PLANCK-WEIGHTED

GREENHOUSE-GAS OPTICAL THICKNESS

Ferenc Miskolczi

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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT

SPECIAL ISSUE: PARADIGMS IN CLIMATE RESEARCH

VOLUME 21 No. 4 2010, AUGUST

ABSTRACT

By the line-by-line method, a computer program is used to analyze Earth atmospheric radiosonde data from hundreds of weather balloon observations. In terms of a quasi-all-sky protocol, fundamental infrared atmospheric radiative flux components are calculated: at the top boundary, the outgoing long wave radiation, the surface transmitted radiation, and the upward atmospheric emittance; at the bottom boundary, the downward atmospheric emittance. The partition of the outgoing long wave radiation into upward atmospheric emittance and surface transmitted radiation components is based on the accurate computation of the true greenhouse-gas optical thickness for the radiosonde data. New relationships among the flux components have been found and are used to construct a quasi-all-sky model of the earth’s atmospheric energy transfer process. In the 1948-2008 time period the global average annual mean true greenhouse-gas optical thickness is found to be time-stationary. Simulated radiative no-feedback effects of measured actual CO2 change over the 61 years were calculated and found to be of magnitude easily detectable by the empirical data and analytical methods used. The data negate increase in CO2 in the atmosphere as a hypothetical cause for the apparently observed global warming. A hypothesis of significant positive feedback by water vapor effect on atmospheric infrared absorption is also negated by the observed measurements. Apparently major revision of the physics underlying the greenhouse effect is needed.

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Further publications:

F.M. Miskolczi: Greenhouse effect in semi-transparent planetary atmospheres. Idojaras - Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service, Vol. 111. No. 1. 2007.

Kratz-Mlynczak-Mertens-Brindley-Gordley-Torres-Miskolczi-Turner: An inter-comparison of far-infrared line-by-line radiative transfer models. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer No. 90, 2005.

F.M. Miskolczi and M.G. Mlynczak: The greenhouse effect and the spectral decomposition of the clear-sky terrestrial radiation. Idojaras - Quarterly Journal of the Hungarian Meteorological Service, Vol.108, No. 4. 2004.

Rizzi-Matricardi-Miskolczi: Simulation of uplooking and downlooking high-resolution radiance spectra with two different radiative transfer models. Applied Optics, Vol. 41. No. 6, 2002.

F. Miskolczi-R. Rizzi: High Accuracy Skin Temperature Retrieval Using Spectral Measurements of Multichannel IR Imagers. International Radiation Symposium, Madison, Visconsin, 1998.

F.M. Miskolczi: Modeling of Downward Surface Longwave Flux Density for Global Change Applications and Comparison with Pyrgeometer Measurements. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Vol. 11. No. 2, April 1994.

F.M. Miskolczi and R. Guzzi: Effect of nonuniform spectral dome transmittance on the accuracy of infrared radiation measurements using shielded pyrradiometers and pyrgeometers. Applied Optics, Vol. 32. No. 18., 1993.