2.3: Radiation and Energy Balance of the Earth System — Read

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Most of the environmental processes acting near the surface of the Earth derive their energy from exchanges of heat between the Earth and the atmosphere above. Much of this heat comes from the absorption of solar radiation. The absorbed energy is used to warm the atmosphere, evaporate water, warm the subsurface along with a host of other processes.

2.3.1: The Radiation Balance
2.3.2: The Energy Balance

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