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Basic Radiative models/Earth’s climate system analysis Pt. 2

December 25, 2007 at 11:00 pm · Filed under scientific basis

From Part 1 we should be able to calculate the energy balance of a planet, and should be able to calculate the equilibrium blackbody temperature of an isothermal spherical zero-albedo planet, as a function of distance from a sun having a given photospheric temperature (the outer layer of the sun).

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