Atmosphere, Clouds, and Climate

Name: Atmosphere, Clouds, and Climate
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ISBN: 9780691143750

ISBN-10: 0691143757

ISBN-13: 9780691143750

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Randall, David A. Randall

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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 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 atmospheric processes, David Randall looks at how our climate system receives energy from the sun and sheds it by emitting infrared radiation back into space. The atmosphere regulates these radiative energy flows, and also transports energy through weather systems such as thunderstorms, monsoons, hurricanes, and winter storms. Randall explains how these processes work, and also how precipitation,…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/18/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.91" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

David Randall is professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University.



Preface



Basics



Radiative Energy Flows



How Turbulence and Cumulus Clouds Carry Energy Upward


Appendix to Chapter 3: More about Eddy Fluxes



How Energy Travels from the Tropics to the Poles


Appendix to Chapter 4: Conservation of Momentum on a Rotating Sphere



Feedbacks



The Water Planet



Predictability of Weather and Climate



Air, Sea, Land



Frontiers


Notes


Glossary


Suggestions for Further Reading


Bibliography


Index