WHAT HAPPENS TO LATENT HEAT?. SINKS OF INSOLATION 1. SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX. Energy used in changing the temperature of the air.

WHAT HAPPENS TO LATENT HEAT?

SINKS OF INSOLATION

• 1. SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX. Energy used in changing the temperature of the air.

SINKS OF INSOLATION


• 2. GROUND HEAT FLUX. Energy used in changing the temperature of the planet’s surface (continents and oceans)

SINKS OF INSOLATION


• 2. GROUND HEAT FLUX. Energy used in changing the temperature of the planet’s surface (continents and oceans).

• 3. LATENT HEAT FLUX. Energy used in changing the state of Water

WE NEED TO TRANSFER ENERGY


• 1. SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX. Warm/cold air exchanges, global/seasonal wind patterns (ADVECTION)



• 2. GROUND HEAT FLUX. Warm/cold surface water currents in oceans (2/3rd of global surface. (ADVECTION)



• 2. GROUND HEAT FLUX. Warm/cold surface water currents in oceans (2/3rd of glabal surface. (ADVECTION)

• 3. LATENT HEAT FLUX. Change of state of water - vapor, liquid, solid (Condensation/Evaporation; Freezing/Thawing) …. Precipitation (rain/snow)

TRANSFER OF LATENT HEAT

Formation of rain and snow redistributes latent heat from point where evaporation took place (Input of latent heat of fusion and latent heat of vaporization).

To the place where cloud formation and precipitation occurs (release of latent heat to the environment).

HOW TO EXTRACT LATENT HEAT FROM WATER VAPOR.

• Cool the air!


• Cool the air!• “Warm air can hold more moisture than cold

air.”


• Cool the air!• “Warm air can hold more moisture than cold

air.”• Clausius-Clapeyron relationship

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PUT ON THE FURNACE!20 below!


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GLOBAL AIR CONDITIONERS???


Q. How to make air cooler?



A. Make it rise in the atmosphere and it willCool at the lapse rate! (Equation of state ofan ideal gas!)

Lapse rate = ~6.4°C/km

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE AIR RISING (AND COOLING)?

That is where we will get condensation clouds and precipitation.

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE AIR RISING (AND COOLING)?


GLOBAL CIRCULATION PATTERNS – WHERE IS AIR RISING IN TROPOSPHERE?

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1. Above the migrating equatorial Low pressure.Inter-tropical Convergence Zone

June

December

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2. Above the Low pressure zones at 45-60°.Planetary Front

MID-LATITUDE~ PLANETARY FRONT.And Seasonal Migration.

GLOBAL FURNACES???

GLOBAL FURNACES???

Q. How to make air warmer?

GLOBAL FURNACES???

Q. How to make air warmer?

A. Make it descend in the atmosphere and it will cool at the lapse rate! (Equation of state of an ideal gas!)

Lapse rate = ~6.4°C/km

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE AIR DESCENDING (AND WARMING)?

That is where we will get evaporation, clear skies and deserts.

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THE AIR DESCENDING (AND WARMING)?


GLOBAL CIRCULATION PATTERNS – WHERE IS AIR DESCENDING IN TROPOSPHERE?

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1. Above the High pressure zones at 30°.Sub-tropical anticyclones

SUB-TROPICAL HIGH PRESSURE


Mojave


Sahara


Middle East


Gobi


Atacama


Kalahari


GreatAustralian

Fig. 2 The zonal height structure over ocean of observed climatological annual mean RH from AIRS (2002–2007) (color scale), with model mean projected changes in cloud amount from

the CMIP3 model archive (contour lines, 0.5% intervals, dashed for cloud loss).

J T Fasullo, K E Trenberth Science 2012;338:792-794

Published by AAAS

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Fig. 3 (A) Median change in simulated top-of-atmosphere net shortwave flux as a function of latitude under 21st-century warming in CMIP3 SRES A1B projections.

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2. Above the Polar High pressure zones.Polar “deserts”

BOREAL POLAR “DESERTS”

Estimate Annual Precipitation Antarctica

mm

2” 8”6”4” 12”10” Gainesville 48”

GLOBAL AIR CONDITIONERS II ???




A. Make it rise by putting a barrier across the path that the surface global winds want to travel.

Orographic Precipitation

CENTRAL AIR(Heating and Cooling)!!


Ocean Continent


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SaturatedAir


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AIR CONDITIONER!Clouds and heavy

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AIR CONDITIONER!Clouds and heavy

precipitation.May be snow

FURNACE!Dry, evaporation,

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W. WashingtonTemperateRainforest

E. WashingtonNear desert

Irrigation

WASHINGTON STATE

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Eastern Andes“Air Conditioner”

WindwardAmazon headwaters

AnnualPrecipitation Topography Annual

Sunshine

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WHAT ABOUT FLORIDA?

20 – 30° GLOBAL DESERTS! HELLO!

30°N

North Atlantic Anti-cyclone and Gyr


HColdCurrent(Canary)

WarmCurrent(Gulf Stream)


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FLORIDAGulf of Mexico North Atlantic


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CONVECTION

FLORIDA AND S.E. NOT UNIQUE

Gulf Stream

KuroSiwo

BrazilCurrent

MozambiqueCurrent

E. AustralianCurrent

SAME PRINCIPLE – DIFFERENT LATITUDE!

Gulf Stream

AlaskaCurrent

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WHY NOT CALIFORNIA?

CALIFORNIANorth Pacific



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Cold California Current

COLD CURRENT + ANTICYCLONE = DESERT (Big time!)

CaliforniaCurrent

HumboldtCurrent

W. AustralianCurrent

CanaryCurrent

BenguelaCurrent

WHAT HAPPENS TO LATENT HEAT?. SINKS OF INSOLATION 1. SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX. Energy used in changing the temperature of the air.

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