Thermodynamic analysis of snowball earth hysteresis experiment: Efficiency, entropy production and irreversibility

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 136, Issue 646, 2010, Pages 2-11

  Lucarini, Valerio ^a,b   Fraedrich, Klaus ^c   Lunkeit, Frank ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate dynamics; Entropy; Irreversibility; Lorenz energy cycle; Multistability; Palaeoclimate; Snowball earth

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE DYNAMICS; ENERGY CYCLE; MULTISTABILITY; PALAEOCLIMATE; SNOWBALL EARTH;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); ENTROPY; EXPERIMENTS; HYSTERESIS; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELING; COMPLEXITY; ENTROPY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEAT TRANSFER; HYSTERESIS; LATENT HEAT FLUX; PALEOCLIMATE; PARAMETERIZATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 76849089934     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: 1477870X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.543     Document Type: Article

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