Temperature profiles as a function of the cumulative column density obtained from the titan modeling of the warm absorber in NGC 3783. We adopt either the entirely cold (solid lines) or the entirely hot solution (dashed lines). From left to right, the lines represent the cases of ξ_tot = 2000 erg cm s^-1 (red), ξ_tot = 4000 erg cm s^-1 (green), ξ_tot = 8000 erg cm s^-1 (blue), ξ_tot = 16000 erg cm s^-1 (magenta) and ξ_tot = 20 000 erg cm s^-1 (cyan). In each case, the value of is adjusted to optimize the reproduction of the observed continuum spectral shape (see text). For comparison we also show the temperature profile obtained from the AMD analysis of the Chandra observation (black dotted line).