EARTHSS 19 Lecture 3: Lab Lecture #3
7 Feb 2019
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The objectives for today"s lab include building a simple model of our planet"s energy balance. We will be able to see how small changes in physics can change the earth"s temperature. By the end of the lab we should know how albedo and emissivity effect temperature. We should also be able to change the emissivity to reach a certain temperature. We should know how to have two units of temperature (kelvin and celsius) on the same graph. We should also know how planetary distance from the sun affects temperature. Below is the final flowchart for after part d. Top-level model: energy(t) = energy(t - dt) + (e_in - e_out) * dt. Units: j/days albedo = 0. 28 area = 4*pi*radius^2. For this part, we plotted temperature, in both kelvin and celsius, through time. 100 days the final celsius temperature is -16. 4 . No, this is not above freezing as the freezing temperature for celsius is 0 .
