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This 3 page paper provides an overview of the factors influencing climate change and weather forecasting, especially in relationship to the Earth's energy budget. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, volcanic eruptions and variations in solar output. Climate change is directly linked to the basics of the Earths energy exchange and this exchange
impacts the unpredictability of weather forecasting. The Earths energy budget is a term that refers to the heat transfer, but includes much more than just the absorption and reemission
of radiation that occurs on the Earths surface. The energy budget also includes the radiation that is absorbed and reemitted from molecules in the Earths atmosphere, which impact the
stability of the temperature on the surface (OK-FIRST, 2004). The Earths energy budget includes outgoing terrestrial radiation, which is the radiation emitted from the surface, atmosphere and clouds combined
and the balance with incoming radiation (OK-FIRST, 2004). The concept of global energy balance, then, is the effort to create a "balanced budget" where the incoming
energy from the Earth and the atmosphere equals the outgoing energy (OK-FIRST, 2004). An imbalance in the energy budget would result in heating or cooling of the Earths surface
in a manner that would result in extremes. Another major factor, though, relative to this balance is the fact that not all energy within the balance is radiative energy,
some of it is sensible or latent heat (OK-FIRST, 2004). Generally speaking, the atmosphere experiences radiative cooling, but the latent and sensible heating balance of the cooling (OK-FIRST, 2004).
The atmosphere maintains a warming effect on the surface of the Earth, through the presence of what have been deemed "greenhouse gases." In the absence of these
gases, the average temperature of the Earth would decrease significantly to the point of being unlivable (OK-FIRST, 2004). At the same time, the atmosphere also helps to mediate the
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