Global energetics of the atmosphere : earth-atmosphere equilibrium, greenhouse effect, and climate change / Boris M. Smirnov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smirnov, Boris M., author.

Series:

Springer atmospheric sciences 2194-5225

Springer atmospheric sciences, 2194-5225

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atmospheric science.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 301 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book looks at global atmospheric processes from a physical standpoint using available current and past observational data taken from measurements of relevant atmospheric parameters. It describes various aspects of the current atmospheric state and its future evolution, focusing primarily on the energetic balance of the Earth and atmosphere, and taking into consideration the multi-faceted global equilibrium between these two systems, carbon, and water. The analysis presented in this book restricts itself to those objects and processes that allow us to obtain reliable conclusions and numerical estimations, in contrast to current climate models with much larger numbers of parameters for describing the same problems. As a result, in spite of the roughness of numerical parameters, the book unveils a reliable and transparent physical picture of energetic phenomena in the global atmosphere. In particular, it shows that approximately only one-fourth of atmospheric water returns from the atmosphere to the Earth in the form of free molecules. It was shown that the contemporary warming of our planet has an anthropogenic character, and that the average global temperature increases due to an increase of the concentration of atmospheric CO2 molecules, via an increase in atmospheric moisture, as well as an increase in the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere. Accumulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide plays a subsidiary role in this process and gives approximately one-third in a change of the global temperature, while an increase in the amount of atmospheric water by as little as only 0.3% per year explains the observed warming of the Earth. The book shows how the greenhouse instability of the atmosphere evidently has its origins in the Eocene epoch, presenting an analysis of the influence of various types of global energetic processes on the climate that differs from the official stance on these problems.

Contents:

Introduction

Global Properties of Atmospheric Air

Transport Processes in Atmospheric Air

Condensation Processes in Atmosphere

Energetics of the Earth

Emission of the Atmosphere.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 7, 2022).

ISBN:

9783030900083

3030900088

OCLC:

1291276556

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.