Short communication, Note

Water vapour and greenhouse effect

Ferenz Rakoczi
Zsuzsanna Ivanyi

Abstract

Water content of the atmosphere and its role in the greenhouse effect is investigated. Values of solar constant measured by satellite Nimbus-7 channel 100 have been used for calculating effective temperature of the atmosphere by Stefan- Boltzmann's law. The greenhouse effect is defined as the difference between the surface temperature and the atmosphere effective temperature. The yearly variation of greenhouse intensity was calculated. It was found that relation between greenhouse intensity and water vapor content is logarithmic.

Keywords

Greenhouse effect; water vapor

Hrčak ID:

17671

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/17671

Publication date:

1.12.2000.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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