The air -sea connection
how are the ocean and the atmosphere connected?
approximatley what percent of solar energy directed toward earth reaches earth's surface?
55% of the sun's energy that does each the surface, 5% is reflected and 50% is absorbed.
what would happen if the solar radiation coming to earth and energy being reradiated into space wee imbalanced?
the earth would grow hotter and hotter until life perished.
What is the Coriolis effect?
an effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force