GEOB 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Radiant Flux, Sensible Heat, Heat Flux
25 Sep 2017
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Energy transfer in the atmosphere --> shows how energy is transported around according to conservation (when energy is being changed from one form to another) Sensible heat: the heat change in the atmosphere that you can measure with a thermometer. Process of condensation within clouds --> this leads to a lot of energy being released through latent heat. Rain converts geopotential energy to kinetic energy --> moves the heat around. An equation where energy is added to the equation and see how much work is done/heat produced du = energy added dw = work dq = heat. The bulk of our energy is solar energy. Net radiation = sensible heat + latent heat + soil heat + Net radiation: is the budget of energy that we calculated (after loss and gain of solar and long-wave radiation), represents the radiation balance of earth. The radiation comes from direct radiation (directly from the sun) or diffused radiation.
