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..

---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|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 T_s region and the T₁ region would be: σ T₁⁴ - σ T_s⁴ - σ T_eq⁴ = 0 (because flux σ T_s⁴ is coming back into the T₁ region) and not σ T₁⁴ - σ T_eq⁴ = 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 T_s, correct? Then, the no net flux constraint at the outermost boundary is:

σ T_s⁴ + (1 - ε) σ T₁⁴ - σ T_eq⁴ = 0

Under these changes, it would seem the solution is

T₁⁴ = T_eq⁴ /(1 - ε/2)

and

T_s⁴ = T_eq⁴ (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 = T_eq⁴ (but also T_s⁴ = 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)