ATMOSPHERIC ENERGETICS (continued)

PART III: ENERGY BUDGETS

To describe the interactions that take place as solar radiation enters into the earth-atmosphere system and terrestrial radiation leaves the system.
To identify locales of energy imbalance within the earth-atmosphere system.
To identify and rank the three modes of energy transport from the earth's surface into the atmosphere on an annual global basis.
To identify the mechanisms of poleward heat transport operating within the earth-atmosphere system.
To identify the major energy conversion processes that occur within the atmosphere.
To distinguish between radiational controls and air mass controls of air temperature.
To describe the significance of surface characteristics for air temperature.
To recognize the influence of the major controls of temperature upon the world temperature distribution.

Last revision 24 May 1999

Produced by Edward J. Hopkins, Ph.D.

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences

University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706

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