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Principles of Planetary Climate
"This book introduces the reader to all the basic physical building blocks of climate needed to understand the present and past climate of Earth, the climates of Solar System planets, and the climates of extrasolar planets. These building blocks include thermodynamics, infrared radiative transf...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Sommario:
- 1. The big questions
- 2. Thermodynamics in a nutshell
- 3. Elementary models of radiation balance
- 4. Radiative transfer in temperature-stratified atmospheres
- 5. Scattering
- 6. The surface energy balance
- 7. Variation of temperature with season and latitude
- 8. Evolution of the atmosphere
- 9. A peek at dynamics.