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The climate at maximum entropy production by meridional atmospheric and oceanic heat fluxes

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Grassl,  Hartmut
MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Grassl, H. (1981). The climate at maximum entropy production by meridional atmospheric and oceanic heat fluxes. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 107, 153-166. doi:10.1002/qj.49710745110.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0009-10A9-6
Abstract
In a zonally‐average energy balance climate model (principal features as with Paltridge 1975) with the four unknowns ‐ surface temperature T, cloud amount N, total meridional heat fluxes within the ocean and the atmosphere Om+Am, and total vertical heat flux LE+CH, the maximum entropy production by meridional heat fluxes is used as a constraint to solve the system for the four unknowns in all 10 boxes of the model. Since the solution at maximum entropy production by meridional heat fluxes agrees quite well with present mean conditions, this maximum principle is used as a working hypothesis for climate sensitivity studies avoiding the use of fixed cloud amount and meridional heat fluxes. the resulting sensitivities partly agree and disagree with those of similar energy balance climate models. Disagreement is particularly high if an ice‐albedo feed‐back is included. the feed‐back is strongly reduced because of opposing effects of cloud amount in high latitudes. Copyright © 1981 Royal Meteorological Society