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Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Given Distribution of Relative Humidity

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Creators

  • Syukuro Manabe, author
  • Richard T. Wetherald, author

Canon Rationale

A core climate-science paper, included for radiative-convective modeling, climate sensitivity, and the physical modeling of atmospheric warming.

Evidence

  • citation context: Manabe and Wetherald, 'Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Given Distribution of Relative Humidity,' Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 1967.
  • field survey: The Nobel Prize, scientific background on climate and complex systems, 2021.

Audit Flags

version dependency, epistemic status required

Completion unit: read the full 1967 paper.

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