http://declineeffect.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Pot-Lid-Oct-2011-v2.pdf
a very interesting paper but not for the faint hearted. deals with such things as how the GCMs originally limited calculations for PV=nRT because of insufficient computing power but never put it back in once supercomputers were available. a good description of the missing hotspot and possible reasons for it. there was a fun quote from a non-Hansen area of NASA-
I have only skimmed it so far but it brings up a lot of points I've heard in other places, like an indepth dialogue on air pressure and rain drops between GISS climate modeller Gavin Schmitt (Real Climate) and others at Judy Curry's site Climate Etc. there is even a reference to the crazy Hungarian who's theory set Brooks down this path. (I still think Miskolczi has an outside chance of a Nobel if his idea pans out. Elegance and Beauty often turn out to also be Truth, at least according to Gell-Mann and Feynman)
a very interesting paper but not for the faint hearted. deals with such things as how the GCMs originally limited calculations for PV=nRT because of insufficient computing power but never put it back in once supercomputers were available. a good description of the missing hotspot and possible reasons for it. there was a fun quote from a non-Hansen area of NASA-
The ocean holds 97% of the total water on the planet; 78% of global precipitation
occur over the ocean, and it is the source of 86% of global evaporation.
Evaporation from the sea surface keeps the oceans from overheating. If there
were no oceans, only land, the earth's greenhouse effect would lead to a surface
temperature far too high. If the earth were in radiative equilibrium, with an
atmosphere, the surface temperature would be 67°C. This does not happen
because water evaporates from the surface, mostly from tropical seas, cooling the surface. The hydrological cycle keeps the greenhouse effect from heading to
an overly hot planet. Sunlight warms the surface, mostly the tropical seas. The
seas lose heat by evaporation (latent heat flux). Winds carry the vapor away from
tropics. When the vapor condenses as rain, mostly in the ITCZ, it releases the
latent heat, which warms the air, which drives the atmospheric circulation. Etc.
This result of the hydrological cycle is of over riding importance. Without it we
would not live on a habitable planet.
I have only skimmed it so far but it brings up a lot of points I've heard in other places, like an indepth dialogue on air pressure and rain drops between GISS climate modeller Gavin Schmitt (Real Climate) and others at Judy Curry's site Climate Etc. there is even a reference to the crazy Hungarian who's theory set Brooks down this path. (I still think Miskolczi has an outside chance of a Nobel if his idea pans out. Elegance and Beauty often turn out to also be Truth, at least according to Gell-Mann and Feynman)