Atmosphere, clouds, and climate /

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Author / Creator:Randall, David A. (David Allan), 1948-
Imprint:Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.
Description:viii, 277 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language:English
Series:Princeton primers in climate
Princeton primers in climate.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8779834
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ISBN:9780691143743 (hardcover)
0691143749 (hardcover)
9780691143750 (pbk.)
0691143757 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Basics
  • Radiative energy flows
  • How turbulence and cumulus clouds carry energy upward
  • How energy travels from the tropics to the poles
  • Feedbacks
  • The water planet
  • Predictability of weather and climate
  • Air, sea, land
  • Frontiers.