Figure 3
Energy and entropy partitioning by scenario for TAP. (a) Partitioning of incoming radiation into outgoing shortwave radiation (SW), longwave radiation (LW), latent heat (LE), and sensible heat (H) for three scenarios at TAP. From UN to OT to Multi-group, the percentage of \(LW_{out}\) decreases as the sensible and latent heat increases. A larger partitioning towards \(LW_{out}\) (i.e. UN) leads to greater weight towards a higher EUE value for an ecosystem’s dissipation efficiency (Fig. 2a). (b) The corresponding entropy flux for the incoming radiation and outgoing energy flux of three TAP scenarios presented as a percentage of the total incoming entropy flux. Unlike energy, entropy is not conserved, but produced—indicated by a percentage greater than 100 and shaded in grey. The table displays the percent of the scenarios’ outgoing entropy flux relative to the incoming entropy flux, indicating a 11–16% increase in entropy produced by the functional groups. Since LW has the largest EUE of all the energy categories (Fig. 2a), its percentages in (b) are larger than in (a).
