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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Randall, David A. (David Allan), 1948-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
Collection:Princeton primers in climate.
Sujets:
Atmosphere.
Climatic changes.
Climatology.
Clouds.
Atmospheric circulation.
Atmosphère.
Climat > Changements.
Nuages.
Circulation atmosphérique.
atmosphere.
climate change.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Wolke
Atmosphärische Turbulenz
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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