GEG 2304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Subtropics, Vehicle Emissions Control, Forced Convection
7 Feb 2018
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January- incoming solar decreases as you go towards north. July-incoming solar radiation decreases as you go towards the south. Some longitudinal difference that is caused by the clouds that affect the levels of radiations across the tropics: they are not perfectly zoneal. If the inputs are greater than the outputs the region will heat up an vice versa. The first concept we need is that of the net radiation. Rn = rsw down- rsw up + rlw down- rlw up. The important thing is to know if the budget is positive or negative. Negative value means you are losing energy from the surface to the atmosphere. Trying to figure out how the atmosphere is being heated and where the energy is going. Graph1(december: min=white max=red, these are all positive so there is more coming in then what is being reflected. The reflected cannot be more than the incoming radiation.
