RADIATIVE ENTROPY EQUILIBRIUM

A balanced approach for treating radiative entropy and energy, known a s equal thermodynamic protocol, is applied to the analysis of radiativ e equilibrium. Radiative equilibrium, in this balanced context, is see n as either of two possible states: entropy or energy equilibrium. It is shown that these two states have a fundamental relationship to each other which leads to strong parallels to the relationships between en ergy and entropy in equilibrium thermodynamics. Copyright (C) 1997 Els evier Science Ltd.