Atmosphere, clouds, and climate

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The atmosphere is critical to climate change. It can amplify shifts in the climate system, and also mitigate them. This primer offers an introduction to these atmospheric processes and how they work, written by a leading expert on the subject. In an overview of key atmospheric processes, the author...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Randall, David A. (David Allan), 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
Series:Princeton primers in climate.
Subjects:
Atmosphere.
Climatic changes.
Climatology.
Clouds.
Atmospheric circulation.
atmosphere.
climate change.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Atmosphere
Atmospheric circulation
Climatic changes
Climatology
Clouds
Wolke
Atmosphärische Turbulenz
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Basics
  • Radiative energy flows
  • How turbulence and cumulus clouds carry energy upward ; More about eddy fluxes
  • How energy travels from the tropics to the poles ; Conservation of momentum on a rotating sphere
  • Feedbacks
  • The water planet
  • Predictability of weather and climate
  • Air, sea, land
  • Frontiers.

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