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Principles of planetary climate
"The climate system is made up of building blocks which in themselves are based on elementary physical principles, but which have surprising and profound collective behavior when allowed to interact on the planetary scale. In this sense, the "climate game" is rather like the game of G...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Principles of planetary climate / Raymond T. Pierrehumbert,... |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
, 2010 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (xxv-652 p.) |
| Sujets : |
- Preface
- 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
- Appendix
- Notation
- Index