@homomorfismo@mastodon.social The physics of how heat rises from the surface of the Earth depends on the Rayleigh number. A low number means that the air is 'thick' and the heat flow is all infra-red radiation, like Venus. Then we have greenhouse gases which interfere with the radiation. If the R number is large, then the heat flow is all convection. In the 70's there were large studies on this, to look at clear air convection cells. No funding for this now. The only hints of violent clear air convection cells come from jets who hit them.