Atmosphere, Clouds, and Climate / / David Randall.
The atmosphere is critical to climate change. It can amplify shifts in the climate system, and also mitigate them. This primer offers a short, reader-friendly introduction to these atmospheric processes and how they work, written by a leading expert on the subject. Giving readers an overview of key...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Primers in Climate ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 19 halftones. 21 line illus. 5 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Basics
- 2. Radiative Energy Flows
- 3. How Turbulence and Cumulus Clouds Carry Energy Upward
- 4. How Energy Travels from the Tropics to the Poles
- Appendix to Chapter 4: Conservation of Momentum on a Rotating Sphere
- 5. Feedbacks
- 6. The Water Planet
- 7. Predictability of Weather and Climate
- 8. Air, Sea, Land
- 9. Frontiers
- Notes
- Glossary
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Bibliography
- Index