Temperature of the Earth
Temperature of the Earth
About the Book
This is a 60-page e-book that explains the heat balance of our planet in simple physics terms, going back 5 million years and projecting to future temperatures. Plentiful data, new analyses, clear writing and many illustrations. High school level and up.
About the Author
Table of Contents
Contents
Page Topic
4 Temperature
5 Heat and radiation
7 A first estimate of Earth’s surface temperature
9 Historical temperatures (first look)
11 Earthshine: albedo of the Earth
13 The Atmosphere
15 Earth’s energy budget
18 Surface temperature versus latitude
20 Paleo-temperature: what is the past history?
25 The recent past: measurements of CO2 and CH4
26 Insolation: orbital effects on the solar irradiation of Earth.
28 How the greenhouse gases produce their warming effect: CO2
30 A question somebody asked
31 How the greenhouse gases produce their warming effect: CH4
33 Where does the methane come from?
35 Roundup of Radiative Forcing (RF) for CO2, CH4 and N2O
37 Forcing heat goes mainly into the oceans
38 How much sea level rise do we expect from the RF heat input?
44 Future sea level
45 What future temperature should we expect?
50 Radiative transport in the atmosphere: supplement
52 Evaporation to the rescue?
55 Habitability
56 Practical measures
57 Refresher course
59 About the Author
Copyright Malcolm McGeoch 2018. All rights reserved.
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