Geoscientific Model Development
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Articles | Volume 17, issue 9
Articles | Volume 17, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3801-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3801-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 9
Model description paper
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14 May 2024
Model description paper |  | 14 May 2024

A radiative–convective model computing precipitation with the maximum entropy production hypothesis

Quentin Pikeroen, Didier Paillard, and Karine Watrin

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All accurate climate models use equations with poorly defined parameters, where knobs for the parameters are turned to fit the observations. This process is called tuning. In this article, we use another paradigm. We use a thermodynamic hypothesis, the maximum entropy production, to compute temperatures, energy fluxes, and precipitation, where tuning is impossible. For now, the  1D vertical model is used for a tropical atmosphere. The correct order of magnitude of precipitation is computed.
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