Abstract: The effects of the nongray absorption (i.e., atmospheric opacity varying with wavelength) on the possible upper bound of the outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) emitted by a planetary atmosphere have been examined. This ...

Abstract: The steady-state zonally averaged climate is perturbed by adding a latitude-dependent heat source to an energy balance equation of the simplified Budyko-Sellers type. The latitude of the ice edge, which is attached to an ...

Abstract: A space-time statistical analysis of total outgoing infrared radiation (derived from the 10.5?12.5 ?m window measurements of the NOAA operational satellites) is used to determine the gross features of day-to-day cloudiness ...