Atmosphere , Clouds, and Climate Randall David A.
Atmosphere , Clouds, and Climate Randall David A. The atmosphere is critical to climate change. This primer offers a short, reader-friendly introduction to these atmospheric processes and how they…
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Atmosphere , Clouds, and Climate Randall David A.
The atmosphere is critical to climate change. 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. It can amplify shifts in the climate system, and also mitigate them.
Randall explains how these processes work, and also how precipitation, cloud formation, and other phase changes of water strongly influence weather and climate. The atmosphere regulates these radiative energy flows and transports energy through weather systems such as thunderstorms, monsoons, hurricanes, and winter storms. He discusses how atmospheric feedbacks affect climate change, how the large-scale atmospheric