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About the function tex2html_wrap_inline1409 and tex2html_wrap_inline1411

The function tex2html_wrap_inline1413, as a function of N, will have the following form (see Fig. 5).

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Figure 5: The function tex2html_wrap_inline1417 (considering the greenhouse effect in the model) as a function of N. The value tex2html_wrap_inline1421, corresponding to zero value of N, is determined by the value A. Since we shall consider this function as a function of N:tex2html_wrap_inline1429, then tex2html_wrap_inline1431.

Analogously to the Daisyworld model by Watson and Lovelock, the vegetation cover changes the albedo tex2html_wrap_inline1293 of the planet. We suppose that the surface albedo decreases with an increase of vegetation. In Fig. 6 the functional form of tex2html_wrap_inline1435 is plotted.

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Figure 6: The function tex2html_wrap_inline1435 considering the solar irradiance: tex2html_wrap_inline1439, tex2html_wrap_inline1441.

In order to detect the equilibria we shall need the function tex2html_wrap_inline1443. It is obvious that tex2html_wrap_inline1445, where tex2html_wrap_inline1439, and tex2html_wrap_inline1449. If tex2html_wrap_inline1451 at some point tex2html_wrap_inline1453, where the expression tex2html_wrap_inline1455 is defined as
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then tex2html_wrap_inline1457 has a maximum at tex2html_wrap_inline1459 (see Fig. 7).

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Figure 7: The function tex2html_wrap_inline1461; at the point tex2html_wrap_inline1459 one gets tex2html_wrap_inline1465, or tex2html_wrap_inline1467.

If tex2html_wrap_inline1469 then tex2html_wrap_inline1457 is a monotonous increasing function, and if tex2html_wrap_inline1473 tex2html_wrap_inline1457 is a monotonous decreasing one.


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Werner von Bloh (Data & Computation)
Thu Jul 13 11:24:58 MEST 2000