Meteorology and
the psychical world of human being
MECHANISMS OF HEAT
TRANSFER
In meteorology three mechanisms
of heat transfer are recognized:
Radiation
Conduction
Convection
These
are also the three mechanisms of energy transfer
in the
psychical world of the human being.
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Because radiation is the only one that can travel
through the relative emptiness of space, most energy coming and leaving
the earth must be in this form. Radiation also plays an important role
in transferring heat from the earth's land-sea surface to the atmosphere
and vice versa.
Let us not forget that we human being have an
inner sun - the Self - and that this Self is radiating energy on the personality
level exactly like the physical sun is radiating energy towards the earth.
Therefore the same mechanisms of heat transfer in meteorology are also
applying to the energy transfer in the psychical world of the human being.
Conduction:
Conduction is the transfer of heat through matter by molecular
activity.
Conduction is familiar to most of us everyday
experiences. Anyone who has attempted to pick up a metal spoon that was
left in a hot pan is sure to realize that heat was conducted through the
spoon.
Conduction is the transfer of heat through
matter by molecular activity. The energy of molecules is transferred through
collisions from one molecule to another, with the heat flowing from the
higher temperature to the lower temperature.
The ability of substances to conduct heat varies
considerably:
Metals are good conductors, as those of us who
have touched a hot spoon have quickly learned.
Air, on the other hand, is a very poor conductor
of heat.
Consequently, conduction is only important between
the earth's surface and the air directly in contact with the surface. As
a means of heat transfer for the atmosphere as a whole, conduction is the
least significant and can be disregarded when considering most meteorological
phenomena.
Convection:
Convection is the transfer of heat by
the movement of a mass or substance from one place to another.
Heat gained by the lowest layer of the atmosphere
from radiation or conduction is most often transferred by convection. Convection
is the transfer of heat by the movement of a mass or substance from one
place to another.
It can only take place in liquids and gases.
Convective motions in the atmosphere are responsible for the redistribution
of heat from equatorial regions to the poles and from the surface upward.
Advection:
The term advection is usually reserved for horizontal
convective motions, such as winds. The term "convection" is usually
restricted to vertical heat transfer in the atmosphere.
Conduction: