Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities in Atmospheric Circulation. Follow-Up on Atmospheric Dynamics and Climatic Implications (By Diego Fdez-Sevilla PhD)

The state of the evolution in the storyline of the human development is reaching a sense of "emergency". This situation comes due to the possible "breakdown" in the natural mechanism of resilience which humans enjoyed throughout its evolution maintaining a climatic stability. The ever more frequent "warm" conditions reached throughout the "globe" increases the concerns towards seeing an scenario to develop with "global" magnitudes in which "heat" becomes a dominant threat. Even though the numbers delivered by the variables describing such increases in heat show to support such concerns, the opinion of the society is divided, between sectors from inside and outside academia and even within members of the same field. Some opinions deny the value behind the interpretation of the numbers used to raise the concerns. Other opinions maintain a "sceptic" posture over the use of those concerns to justify economic strategies pointing out that, the ever stronger economic pressures dominating the manipulation of societies might be creating its own justification to once more steer the system on its own terms. The line of research here presented has been carried out conscious of the actual state of debate and focusing on avoiding the incorporation of assumptions. Opposite from those theories studying climatic developments based on applying Boltzmann-Stefan calculations to project increases in temperature related with increases in CO2, in the line of research here presented since 2013 Boltzmann-Stefan calculations are considered inaccurate since its application uses as a reference the radiation emissivity of a surface and assume an homogeneous system in thermodynamic equilibrium. Instead, throughout the approach followed in the present line of research I use the conceptual interpretation followed by Rayleigh–Taylor instabilities since those represent a more accurate description of the atmosphere as a volume instead of a surface, heterogeneous in composition, stratified and out from equilibrium. The increasing role seen by scientists performing as “data mangers” has led science to adopt many assumptions based on statistics without explanations, and applied as “dogmas” in all aspects of science, without any regard for their impact over the conclusions raised. There are more results obtained by data management than understanding over their meaning. Among those preconceptions distorting the meaning of data we have the concept of using greenhouse as simile, ice cores from Antarctica representing the whole planet and even continuity in time under “dry and wet conditions*, the concept of black body radiation, temperature as correlation independent of stratification and indexes such as the Enso being considered “the origin of” but “without an origin” in itself, as being born without conception and even without the need for an explanation. The “Greenhouse” simile uses atmospheric gases with high heat retention capacity as it is CO2, to describe an scenario in which CO2 replicates the conditions of a greenhouse. However, the structure of a greenhouse and the dynamics of productivity in this structure are far from the reality of what our atmosphere and planet are. The idealised concept of seeing gases like CO2 in the atmosphere is that those inhibit the planet from reflecting Solar radiation back into space. And the conceptualised figure of a greenhouse creates the assumption of that it replicates the function of the plastic or glass cover in a greenhouse. So it becomes an assumption that CO2 creates a “blanket” around the troposphere as the glass ceiling in a greenhouse. However, the constant motion of the atmosphere created by convective motion avoids such configuration. Instead, Gasses with High Heat Capacity Retention, like CO2, get incorporated into the whole dimensions of the atmosphere, only restricted by the atmospheric circulation delimited by thermal compartmentalization. So their effect implies a volume and not a surface. The configuration of our planet is compartmentalised and its composition is heterogeneous in latitude, longitude and altitude. All that shows in the data and the mismatch between correlations. Differently from a greenhouse, the feedbacks between water and CO2 are not defined by sharing same volume and radiation, neither lapse of permanency or adiabatic behaviour. Furthermore, the success for the biotic productivity in a greenhouse relies entirely in the constant supply of resources and the consumption of energy regulating all parameters, from temperature, CO2 and humidity. Different from a greenhouse, an ecosystem is an open system because it can exchange energy or materials with other ecosystems. Comparing our planet with a greenhouse creates a misconception about the structure of the atmosphere and the use of the resources. Between global cooling or warming we are undergoing a process of global mixing, but that will only make sense to whom understand how heterogeneous was the configuration of our planetary circulation. Based on the line of research presented between 2013-2019 the processes dominating current developments would be described as: The global Temperature measured is the resultant of mixing patterns in the atmosphere, Therefore an increase in mixing dynamics creates a pause in temperature raise, An increase in mixing dynamics show an increase in convective forcing, Convective forcing is the work resultant from an increase in atmospheric energy being incorporated in free state, The incorporation and spread of energy in free state into the atmosphere is carried and released by water vapour, An increase of water vapour in atmospheric circulation requires an increase in the thermal capacity of the atmosphere, The process of enhancing the thermal capacity of the atmosphere comes by increasing the concentration of GHGs, conc of aerosols, land surface albedo and a decay in the Bioprocessing capabilities of the Natural Habitats. Anthropogenic activity is linked with those processes.