The second law of thermodynamics and the global climate system: A review of the maximum entropy production principle

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Ozawa, Hisashi ^a   Ohmura, Atsumu ^b   Lorenz, Ralph D ^c   Pujol, Toni ^d  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Energetics; Global climate; Maximum entropy production; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; ENTROPY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 1142290510     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002RG000113     Document Type: Article

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