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A model of the solar photosphere incorporating a simple two-stream representation of granulation is found to give a small but significant improvement in the continuous radiation field over a homogeneous model. It is common to assume that the pressure does not vary with horizontal position; however, this assumption cannot be valid if the material is in hydrostatic equilibrium, so horizontal pressure differences between the hot and cold columns are allowed. This has a major effect on the structure, and one of the consequences is that temperature fluctuations at equal optical depths are greater than those at equal geometric depths.
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Margrave, T.E., Swihart, T.L. Inhomogeneities in the solar photosphere. Sol Phys 6, 12–17 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00146789
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