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Importance of Solar Energy in Atmospheric Processes

Explore the critical role the sun plays in Earth's atmosphere with this overview of solar energy's impact. Learn essential terms like albedo, insolation, and terrestrial radiation, and understand how factors like distance from the sun, the length of day and night, and seasonality influence incoming solar radiation levels. Discover the processes of conduction and convection currents along with the atmospheric heat budget. This resource includes key concepts and an opportunity to create an annotated diagram of atmospheric energy dynamics.

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Importance of Solar Energy in Atmospheric Processes

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  1. Atmospheric Processes – Energy in the Atmosphere 17 November 2014

  2. Why is the sun so important?

  3. Energy in the Atmosphere • Learn key terms • Understand how incoming levels of solar radiation can differ • Learn how the sun’s energy affects the atmosphere & vice versa • Draw an annotated diagram of the Atmospheric Heat Budget 17 November 2014

  4. Atmospheric Processes - Key Terms • Albedo • Insolation • Terrestrial radiation • Conduction • Convection Currents 17 November 2014

  5. Distance from the sun Length of day & night - seasonality Differing levels of solar radiation The amount of incoming solar radiation received at a point on the earth’s surface is determined by the following 3 things: Also absorption, scattering & reflection within the atmosphere 17 November 2014

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