TITLE:
Application of Clausius-Clappeyron Relation (1832) and Carnot Principle (1824) to Earth’s Atmosphere Tricellular Circulation
AUTHORS:
Mbane Biouele César
KEYWORDS:
Combination of Elementary Events; Ground- or Space-Based Observations; Earth’s Atmosphere Tricellular Circulation
JOURNAL NAME:
Atmospheric and Climate Sciences,
Vol.4 No.1,
December
20,
2013
ABSTRACT: Atmospheric or climate
phenomena are usually a combination of elementary events whose scales range
from the very small (microscopic) to the infinitely large (synoptic). This
means that build reasoning from ground- or space-based observations only, regardless of the physics of
elementary processes, inevitably leads to erroneous results. Given the fact
that plots of Troposphere Tricellular Circulation are only based on weather
mean conditions measured near the ground (i.e.: pressure and winds fields observed
at the surface of the earth), we want to improve these representations of the
general circulation of the atmosphere, by using both Clausius-Clapeyron
Relation and Carnot Principle derived respectively in 1832 and 1824. Indeed,
Clausius-Clapeyron relation shows precisely that, unlike the dry water vapor
that can be assimilated to the ideal gas at many circumstances, the saturated
water vapor has, in an air parcel at the same time cold (temperature below
0.0098°C) and rich in moisture (vapor pressure above 6.11 mb), thermoelastic
properties diametrically opposed to those of ideal gas (including dry water
vapor). Vertical profiles of temperature and water vapor in the atmosphere
provided by ground- or
space-based observations lead to the location of a troposphere region in which
the ideal gas assumption should be banned: hence appropriate and unique plot of
earth’s atmosphere tricellular circulation.