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- Subject: Surface temperatures (errata)
- Message-ID: <15235.2b3d3b99@ohstpy.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 05:14:01 EST
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Physics
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- I forgot to mention that the discontinuity of the blackbody function
- at the surface is what is know as the (negative) adiabatic lapse rate.
- This causes a rapid decrease of the atmospheric temprature near the
- surface upwards (for the earth it is about -6K/km).
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- -Garrett
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