Entropy budget of the earth, atmosphere and ocean system

摘要

The energy budget in the system of the earth, atmosphere and ocean conforms to the first law of thermodynamics, namely the law of conservation of energy, and it is balanced when the system is in a steady-state condition. However, the entropy budget following the second law of thermodynamics is unbalanced. In this paper, we deduce the expressions of entropy flux and re-estimate the earth, atmosphere and ocean annual mean entropy budget "with the updated climatologically global mean energy budget and the climatologi-cally air-sea flux data. The calculated results show that the earth system obtains a net influx of negative entropy ( - 1179.3m Wm~(-2)K~(-1)) from its surroundings, and the atmosphere and the ocean systems obtain a net input of negative entropy at about - 537.4m Wm~(-2)K~(-1) and - 555.6 mWm~(-2)K~(-1), respectively Calculations of the entropy budget can provide some guidance for further understanding the spatial-temporal change of the local entropy flux, and the entropy production resulting from all kinds of irreversible processes inside these systems.