Cloud variations and the Earth's energy budget
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Title:
Cloud variations and the Earth's energy budget
Creator:
A.E. Dessler
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University -- Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Language:
English

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Abstract:
The question of whether clouds are the cause of surface temperature changes, rather than acting as a feedback in response to those temperature changes, is explored using data obtained between 2000 and 2010. An energy budget calculation shows that the energy trapped by clouds accounts for little of the observed climate variations. And observations of the lagged response of top-of-atmosphere (TOA) energy fluxes to surface temperature variations are not evidence that clouds are causing climate change.

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Florida International University
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