Ideal Gas Law and the Greenhouse Effect
Received Date: Mar 28, 2018 / Accepted Date: Apr 30, 2018 / Published Date: May 02, 2018
Abstract
This communication gives an explanation why the ideal gas law is sufficient to calculate the observed surface temperature of celestial bodies, if the mass density and the pressure of the respective atmospheres are known. The ideal gas law provides also a nice tool to check the experimental consistency of the parameters obtain by other measurements. But it does not permit to directly determine the radiative forcing.
Keywords: Earth; Planets; Thermodynamics; Atmosphere; Radiation
Citation: Reinhart FK (2018) Ideal Gas Law and the Greenhouse Effect. J Earth Sci Clim Change 9: 468. Doi: 10.4172/2157-7617.1000468
Copyright: © 2018 Reinhart FK. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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