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Atmosphere, clouds, and climate /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Randall, David A. (David Allan), 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
Colección:Princeton primers in climate.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.