Comments on: How the Temperature Varies During the Day and Night http://globe.gov/explore-science/scientists-blog/archived-posts/sciblog/2008/02/27/how-the-temperature-varies-during-the-day-and-night/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-the-temperature-varies-during-the-day-and-night Tue, 25 Mar 2014 04:27:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: jga http://globe.gov/explore-science/scientists-blog/archived-posts/sciblog/2008/02/27/how-the-temperature-varies-during-the-day-and-night/comment-page-1/#comment-2007 jga Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:01:29 +0000 http://www.globe.gov/fsl/scientistsblog/?p=95#comment-2007 Great Blog! And, I had a couple questions…

You mentioned that the air continues to warm during the day as long as the amount of energy going into heating the air exceeds the amount of energy (heat) lost due to convection. Does that imply that all else being equal, windy days will always be cooler than calm days the same way calm nights will be warmer than breezy ones?

One of the reasons I ask, looking at Fig. 2, I noticed the Net Radiation was nearly identical for the 2 days, but both the air and surface temperature were slightly larger on the second day. I don’t know what the winds were like on those two days, but you say that that they are clear sky days and I would guess there was fair weather – at least I don’t think there were any fronts moving through. If the winds are the same, wouldn’t the convection be the same? And, if so, what other factors are influencing the the air and surface tempratures?

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