A Radiative Convective Model based on constrained Maximum
Entropy Production
Abstract. The representation of atmospheric convection induced by radiative forcing is a longstanding question mainly because turbulence plays a key role in the transport of energy as sensible heat, geopotential and latent heat. Recent works have tried to use Maximum Entropy Production as a closure hypothesis in Simple Climate Models in order to compute implicitly temperatures and vertical energy flux. However, these models failed to compute realistic profiles. To solve this problem, we prescribe a simplified 1D mass scheme transport which ensures energy fluxes. The later appears as a mechanical constraint which imposes the direction and/or limits the amplitudes of energy fluxes. This leads to a different MEP steady state which depends on the considered energy transfers in the model. Results using such model are improved with respect to another model, not including such effect: temperature and energy flux are closer to the observations and we naturally reproduce stratification when we consider geopotential. Variations of the atmospheric composition, such as doubling of the carbon dioxide concentration, is also investigated.