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C. B. Entwistle, “Analysis of the Nature of Zero Feedback in the Climate System Using a Multilayer Radiative-Convective Model,” M.S. Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana and Champaign, 1992, p. 201.

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• TITLE: Temperature-Profile/Lapse-Rate Feedback: A Misunderstood Feedback of the Climate System

  AUTHORS: Michael E. Schlesinger, C. Bruce Entwistle, Bin Li

  KEYWORDS: Climate Feedback; Feedback Analysis; Lapse-Rate Feedback

  JOURNAL NAME: Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, Vol.2 No.4, November 2, 2012

  ABSTRACT: This study shows that the heretofore assumed condition for no temperature-profile (TP)/lapse-rate feedback, for all altitudes z, or , in fact yields a negative feedback. The correct condition for no TP feedback is for all z, where Ts is the surface temperature. This condition translates into a uniform increase (decrease) in lapse rate with altitude for an increase (decrease) in Ts. The temperature changes caused by a change in solar irradiance and/or planetary albedo satisfy the condition for no TP feedback. The temperature changes caused by a change in greenhouse gas concentration do not satisfy the condition for no TP feedback and, instead, yield a positive feedback.