A diffuse cloud atmosphere climate model

A global climate model is introduced which suggests one way to solve a major problem in climate prediction, that of the nature and effect of cloud changes. The derivation of the necessary equations follows a review of the principle elements which comprise the climate system, a brief critical description of the measurements made on the system, and an analysis of several previous approaches to the general problem. The vertical structure of the model atmosphere and the consequent radiative properties of the system in the steady state are defined in terms of only one independent variable, global annual average surface temperature. The average structure is found by applying the fundamental thermodynamics of the cooling of a moist parcel of air having initial pressure and relative humidity equal to that of the surface averages for the real system.