To a first approximation, an example of radiative exchange equilibrium is in the exchange of non-boundary layer of the lower troposphere, expressed in the so-called " cooling to space approximation ", first noted by Rodgers and Walshaw ( 1966 ).
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If the adiabatic wall is more complicated, with a sort of leverage, having an area-ratio, then the pressures of the two systems in exchange equilibrium are in the inverse ratio of the volume exchange ratio; this keeps the zero balance of rates of transfer as work.
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Kirchhoff's seminal insight, mentioned just above, was that, at thermodynamic equilibrium at temperature, there exists a unique universal radiative distribution, nowadays denoted, that is independent of the chemical characteristics of the materials and, that leads to a very valuable understanding of the radiative exchange equilibrium of any body at all, as follows.
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The term "'radiative exchange equilibrium "'can also be used to refer to two specified regions of space that exchange equal amounts of radiation by emission and absorption ( even when the steady state is not one of thermodynamic equilibrium, but is one in which some sub-processes include net transport of matter or energy including radiation ).
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Liou ( 2002, page 459 ) and other authors use the term "'global radiative equilibrium "'to refer to putative or theoretically conceived radiative exchange equilibrium globally between the earth and extraterrestrial space; such authors intend to mean that, in a putative or theoretically conceived steady state, incoming chemical and nuclear reactions within the planet are negligibly small, the very opposite assumption to the one that motivates a contrary definition given hereunder.
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The high point of Niemeyer's tour was his address at the Melbourne Conference of Commonwealth and State leaders, where he said that the'cold facts must be faced'. . .'In short, Australia is off budget equilibrium, off exchange equilibrium, and faced by considerable unfunded and maturing debts both internally and externally, in addition to which she has on her hands an every large program of loan works for which no financial provision has been made '.
