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Meteorology Today: An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environment
C. Donald Ahrens,Henson Robert +1 more
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In this paper, the authors present an overview of the Earth and its atmosphere, including the following: 1. Earth and Its Atmosphere. 2. Earth's Changing Climate. 3. Seasonal and Daily Temperatures. 4. Atmospheric Humidity. 5. Air Pressure and Winds. 6. Stability and Cloud Development. 7. Precipitation.Abstract:
1. Earth and Its Atmosphere. 2. Energy: Warming the Earth and the Atmosphere. 3. Seasonal and Daily Temperatures. 4. Atmospheric Humidity. 5. Condensation: Dew, Fog, and Clouds. 6. Stability and Cloud Development. 7. Precipitation. 8. Air Pressure and Winds. 9. Wind: Small-Scale and Local Systems. 10. Wind: Global Systems. 11. Air Masses and Fronts. 12. Middle-Latitude Cyclones. 13. Weather Forecasting. 14. Thunderstorms. 15. Tornadoes. 16. Hurricanes. 17. Earth's Changing Climate. 18. Global Climate. 19. Air Pollution. 20. Light, Color, and Atmospheric Optics.read more
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Decision support system for sustainable ecosystem management in atlantic rain forest rural areas
TL;DR: In this article, the FAO definition of forest and the spatial distribution of tropical rainforests are discussed, as well as the relationship between tropical rainforest assets, goods, services, environmental functions and values.
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Earth’s Albedo, Radiative Forcing and Climate Change
G. Thomas Farmer,John Cook +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, Radiative forcing of the climate system is introduced and the relative forcings by principal substances are given, where albedo is defined as the degree of reflectivity of a substance.
Initial results from a GIS-based unsupervised classification study of the Martian surface
TL;DR: In this paper, an initial classification of Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) night-time thermal inertia and TES albedo using a hard classifier was conducted.
Investigating characteristics of lightning-induced transient luminous events over South America
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the characteristics of Lightning-Induced Transient Luminous Events (LTE) in the context of light-induced transient luminous events.
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The Earth's Record of Climate: A Focused-topic Introductory Course
TL;DR: The Earth's Record of Climate course at the University of St. Thomas as mentioned in this paper explores the science of paleoclimatology and its relevance to the climate change of the last century.