Saturday, December 5, 2015

thermodynamics - Maximum temperature possible on earth


What is maximum temperature that can we have on earth on a single day? Lets say an air mass is static over an area and there is no way for air mass to move, sun warming it up would increase temperature of this air mass, now if convection assume to be zero, and heat transfer by radiation only, than this air mass can reach to what temperature during a 24 hour cycle?



I assume that after a certain limit, radiation and convection would start working strongly to have equilibrium of surroundings.


According to thermodynamics principles how high temp in theory can go before equalization process restrict any further increase?


Highest I found till now was $58^\circ~\rm C$ in Libya.




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