4 papers
Atmosphere as a steam engine
Anastassia Makarieva, Andrei Nefiodov
Earth's atmosphere operates a steam cycle in which water vapor evaporates from the surface, expands, condenses, and returns as precipitation. The Clausius-Clapeyron law relates the…
On the Methodology for Assessing Vegetation Impacts on the Atmospheric Branch of the Hydrological Cycle
A. M. Makarieva, A. V. Nefiodov, A. D. Nobre +3
China has undertaken unprecedented, state-driven vegetation restoration on a continental scale. This large-scale land-surface intervention offers a rare opportunity to assess how d…
On the possible role of condensation-related hydrostatic pressure adjustments in intensification and weakening of tropical cyclones
Anastassia M. Makarieva, Andrei V. Nefiodov
It is shown that condensation and precipitation do not disturb the hydrostatic equilibrium if the local pressure sink (condensation rate expressed in pressure units) is proportiona…
Seeing Forests Through Clouds: Comment on "Recent global temperature surge amplified by record-low planetary albedo" (arXiv:2405.19986)
Anastassia M. Makarieva, Andrei V. Nefiodov, Antonio D. Nobre +10
Goessling et al. (1) link the record-breaking warming anomaly of 2023 to a global albedo decline due to reduced low-level cloud cover. What caused the reduction remains unclear. Go…