Abstract
The paper by A. F. Tuck (2010) contained an error on page1141.Thecorrectedsentences appear below:Considering the theoretical case of 2D turbulence, thereare reverse cascades of energy and enstrophy, upscalefor the former and downscale for the latter. If photonenergy is directly converted to vorticity as implied bythe Alder-Wainwright mechanism, it would imply energytransfer upscale from the smallest, molecular, ones in therange 10–100 nanometres at tropospheric temperaturesand pressures. However, the point is moot because thescale invariant structure of the abundances of the absorbersand emitters of radiation, including ozone, carbon dioxide,methane, nitrous oxide and water in all its phases, meansthat energy is input and lost to air on all scales, eliminatingthe possibility of conservative energy or enstrophy cascadeseither upscale or downscale.
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