by W. Eschenbach, July 14, 2024 in WUWT
This is a two-part post. The first part is to correct an oversight in my recent post entitled Rainergy.
The second part is to use that new information to analyze the effect of clouds on the El Nino region.
So, to the first part. In my post Rainergy, I noted that it takes ~ 80 watts per square meter (W/m2) over a year to evaporate a cubic meter of seawater. Thus, the evaporation that creates the ~1 meter of annual rain cools the surface by – 80 W/m2.
Then the other day I thought “Dang! I forgot virga!”
Virga is rain that falls from a cloud but evaporates completely before it hits the ground.
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