Name: Exploring Earth's Heat Budget and Temperature Distribution
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 5 min 35 s
Description: Learn how solar radiation affects Earth's heat balance and temperature, impacting our daily weather and climate patterns in this educational video.

Question

Discuss the processes through which the earth-atmosphere system maintains heat balance.

Accepted Answer

1. Conduction:When two bodies of unequal temperature comes in contact with one another, a flow of energy takes place from the warmer to cooler body. The transfer of heat continues until both the bodies reach the same temperature or the contact is broken.

2. Convection: The air in contact with the earth moves vertically on heating in the form of currents. So, convection is the vertical heating of atmosphere.

3. Advection:When heat is transferred through horizontal movement of air it is called advection. Horizontal movement of the air is dominant over the vertical movement.

Discuss the processes through which the earth-atmosphere system maintains heat balance.

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