Author(s)

Ernani Sartori

Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Jo?o Pessoa, Brazil.

The principles that govern the operation of an open and a closed evaporator are relevant for the understanding of the open and “closed” Earth’s atmospheric behaviors, and are thus described. In these greenhouses, the water is included, otherwise the heat and mass balances do not match. It is incorrect to consider the radiation as the only energy transfer factor for an atmospheric warming. Demonstrations show that when the greenhouse effect and the cloud cover increase, the evaporation and the wind naturally decrease. Researchers did not understand why reductions in surface solar radiation and pan evaporation have been simultaneous with increased air temperature, cloudiness and precipitation for the last decades. It is an error to state that the evaporation increases based solely on the water and/or air temperatures increase. Also, researchers did not comprehend why in the last 50 years the clouds and the precipitation increased while the evaporation decreased and they named such understanding as the “evaporation paradox”, while others “found” “the cause” violating the laws of thermodynamics, but more precipitation is naturally conciliatory with less evaporation. The same principle that increases the formation of clouds may cause less rainfall. Several measurements confirm the working principles of greenhouses described in this paper. The hydrological cycle is analyzed and it was also put in form of equation, which analyses have never been done before. The human influence alters the velocity of the natural cycles as well as the atmospheric heat and mass balances, and the evaporation has not been the only source for the cloud formation. It is demonstrated that the Earth’s greenhouse effect has increased in some places and this proof is not based only on temperatures.

Evaporation; Clouds; Air Water Temperature; Paradox; Hydrological Cycle; Precipitation; Rain; Drought; Global Warming; Radiation; Convection; Aerosols; Greenhouse Effect; Wind; Particulates; Atmosphere; Climate; Human-Induced

E. Sartori, "The Physical Principles Elucidate Numerous Atmospheric Behaviors and Human-Induced Climatic Consequences," Open Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 2 No. 4, 2012, pp. 302-318. doi: 10.4236/ojapps.2012.24045.