It raises the surface temperature substantially above its theoretical radiative equilibrium temperature with the sun, and water vapor is the cause of more of this warming than any other greenhouse gas.
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When the incoming solar energy is balanced by an equal flow of heat to space, the Earth is said to be in radiative equilibrium and under that condition, global temperatures will be stable.
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He defined'local thermodynamic equilibrium'in a'cell'by requiring that it macroscopically absorb and spontaneously emit radiation as if it were in radiative equilibrium in a cavity at the temperature of the matter of the'cell '.
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After all, for any hydrogen weapon system to work, this radiative equilibrium must be reached together with the compression equilibrium between the fusion tamper and the sparkplug ( see below ), hence their name " equilibrium supers ".
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A few years prior, Osterbrock proposed deep convection zones with efficient convection, analyzing them using the opacity of H-ions ( the dominant opacity source in cool atmospheres ) in temperatures below 5000K . However, the earliest numerical models of Sun-like stars did not follow up on this work and continued to assume radiative equilibrium.
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Two bodies that are at the same temperature stay in mutual thermal equilibrium, so a body at temperature " T " surrounded by a cloud of light at temperature " T " on average will emit as much light into the cloud as it absorbs, following Prevost's exchange principle, which refers to radiative equilibrium.
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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.
