Review of Greenhouse Effect
Class #9 (Mon., Jan 30)
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Reading:
No new reading for today.
Notes:
No new reading.
As you prepare for class, bring questions about things you didn’t understand from previous chapters. Also, think about these review questions:
- What are the laws of blackbody radiation?
- How do you use a layer model?
- What makes some greenhouse gases more powerful than others?
- What are the important differences between the layer-model approach to calculating temperature and the skin-model on pp. 45–46?
- How does band saturation work? How can you recognize saturation in MODTRAN?
- How do you use MODTRAN to calculate the effect of doubling CO2?
- How do you use the full-spectrum RRTM model to calculate the effect of doubling CO2?
