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UP: Fachverband Umweltphysik

UP 13: Joint-Session with the European Physical Society (EPS) - Environmental Physics Division: ”Energy and Environment“

UP 13.3: Talk

Thursday, March 13, 2008, 15:40–16:05, 3B

Climate Chemistry Interaction — •Adrian Tuck — NOAA, Boulder, US

The state of the atmosphere is considered from a molecular dynamics perspective, from which vorticity, winds and temperature are produced following the absorption of solar photons. Via the scaling exponents H, C and alpha , describing respectively the conservation, intermittency and fractality, we consider evidence that the atmosphere is never at equilibrium on any time or space scale and that accordingly Maxwell-Boltzmann distributions of molecular speeds cannot occur. The viewpoint has been expounded in book form, available from January 2008, at http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/? ci=9780199236534