Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II
Online ISSN : 2186-9057
Print ISSN : 0026-1165
ISSN-L : 0026-1165
On the Exchange of Heat in the Atomosphere
K. TakahasiS. Fujiwhara
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1938 Volume 16 Issue 2 Pages 50-59

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From the energetic stand point of view, the weather and the climate may be thought as an exchange of energy from one form to the other, and herce it will be interesting and important to study the exchange of heat in the atmosphere. The present authors have ever calculated the energy exchange at a selected station, Tokyo and found that the most important energies were due to radiation, evaporation, condensation, convection and conduction by turbulence.
Now we wish further continue to treat this problem. Here the energy by convection is neglected, and the following equations and the boundary conditions are introduced:-
equation of heat exchange, boundary conditions
where the first term of the equation expres_??_es the conductive heat by radiation in the sense of Brunt's treatment, which is discussed here once more exactly, and the second term represents the exchange of energy by water and the last term the transfer of heat by turbulence. This equation was solved under the boundary conditions given above and the results were summerized as follows.
(1) The isothermal layer is produced at the upper layer of the atmosphere.
(2) The temperatures at the surface and upperlaver are given by
(3) It was shown that they agree fairy well with the actual ones within the error of the observation.
(4) The lapse rate is given by
(5) The air temperature at every height is calculated by the above equation step by step from the surface temperature.
(6) It is found that the calculated value agrees with the observation at least qualitatively.

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