Day-night heat redistribution

Day-night heat redistribution transports absorbed stellar energy from an irradiated hemisphere to a dark hemisphere through atmospheric or oceanic motion. Its efficiency controls the thermal phase-curve amplitude and nightside temperature of a synchronously rotating planet.

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- Nightside equilibrium temperature Day-night heat redistribution

Nightside equilibrium temperature ( $T_{n}$ )

ϵ

of total absorbed stellar power reaches the night side, blackbody balance gives

T_{n} = T_{*} \frac{R _{*}}{a} [\frac{ϵ ( 1 - A _{B} )}{2}]^{1/4} .

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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2023 / iii / Paper 315 / 3 / d / Solution

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