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6. Given the Earth's albedo of A = 0.3, what surface temperature do you predict at...

6. Given the Earth's albedo of A = 0.3, what surface temperature do you predict at equilibrium? Is this consistent with the Earth's actual average temperature of 14C? How do you explain the discrepancy?

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The formula relates the temperature of a planet to albedo and luminosity of the star.

where = Stefan Boltzmann constant

T = Temmperature of the planet

a = albedo

d = diameter of star

= Luminosity of the star

We can further simplify the formula to

You should input the luminosity in watts, the distance to the star in meters and the Stefan-Boltzmann constant as

σ=5.670373×10−8Wm−2K−4.

The albedo is dimensionless. The resulting temperature will be in Kelvins. Let me make an example for Earth:

d=149,000,000,000m

L=3.846×10^26W

Albedo of Earth is 0.3. You will get


After powering this number to 1/4, we obtain temperature 256 K, which is -17° C. This looks reasonable. The real average temperature on Earth is closer to 15° C, but the greenhouse effect is responsible for the difference.

genius_generous answered 2 years ago
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