Talk:Skin temperature (atmosphere)

Feedback from New Page Review process
I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Thank you for this new article, but I am wondering about the title. If skin temperature of an atmosphere is a common term used by experts in its entirety, then that could be the title of the article (without the parentheses). If experts in this field simply use the term skin temperature then the article's title should probably be something like Skin temperature (meteorology) or the same with a different relevant field within the parentheses..

---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 17:29, 3 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the suggestion, Doomsdayer520. In that case, I think perhaps Skin temperature (planetary science) would be most appropriate. Lmfifer (talk) 05:36, 7 October 2019 (UTC)

Confused by derivation
Hello, I apologize if I am missing something basic here, but I am confused by the derivation. It would seem the no net flux constraint between the Ts region and the T1 region would be: σ T14 - σ Ts4 - σ Teq4 = 0 (because flux σ Ts4 is coming back into the T1 region) and not σ T14 - σ Teq4 = 0 as stated in the article.

Also, in the diagram the split energy flux should be ε σ T14 and (1 - ε) σ T14 and not the same using Ts, correct? Then, the no net flux constraint at the outermost boundary is:

σ Ts4 + (1 - ε) σ T14 - σ Teq4 = 0

Under these changes, it would seem the solution is

T14 = Teq4 /(1 - ε/2)

and

Ts4 = Teq4 (ε/2) /(1 - ε/2)

If by "thin" it is meant that the skin region absorbs essentially nothing, i.e. ε → 0 then we would have T14 = Teq4  (but also Ts4 = 0.) Is that limit is what being discussed in the article?

Thank you,

Karl Runge — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:C6F0:55B0:D217:C2FF:FE86:6693 (talk) 02:51, 3 November 2021 (UTC)