Chaper 4 Terms
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| Transmission | The passage of shortwave and longwave energy through either the atmosphere or water.
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| Scattering | Deflection and redirection of isolation by atmospheric gases, dust, ice,and water
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| Refraction | The transition subjects in insolation to a change of speed, which also shifts its direction in bending action
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| Reflection | The portion of arriving insolation that is returned directly to space without performing any work
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| Albedo | The reflective quality of a surface expressed as the percentage of reflected insolation to incoming insolation; A function of surface, color, angle of incidence and surface texture.
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| Cloud Albedo Focusing | An increase in albedo caused by clouds
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| Cloud Greenhouse forcing | An increase in greenhouse warming caused by clouds
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| Global Diming | The decline in sunlight reaching the earths surface due to population
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| Conduction | The molecule-to-molecule transfer of heat energy as it diffuses through a substance.
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| Convection | The physical mixing involves a strong vertical motion
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| Advection | when horizontal motion dominates in the physical mixing
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| Greenhouse effect | The rough similarity between the process and way a greenhouse operates
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| Jet contrails | Produce high cirrus clouds stimulated by aircraft exhaust
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| Microclimatology | the science of physical conditions at or near earths surface
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| Net radiation | The balance of all radiation at earths surface
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| Urban Heat island | both max and minimum temperatures higher than those of near by rurel settings
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| Dust dome | Air borne population, which can be blown from the city in elongated plumes
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| Transparency | water is clear and light passes through it to an average depth of 60 m in the ocean
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| Gulf Stream | moves northward off the east coast of North America carrying warm water far into the north America
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| Specific Heat | The heat compacity of a substance
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