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Explore the layered structure of the Earth's atmosphere and discover how global wind patterns, jet streams, monsoons, and climate oscillations impact our climate system.
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007 Chapter 2 frontispiece. The crescent moon as seen through Earth’s thin upper atmosphere E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: NASA
008 Figure 2.1. The layered structure of the atmosphere E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Hartmann, 1994
009 Figure 2.2. The decreases in air and vapor pressure with altitude E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Hartmann, 1994
010 Figure 2.3. Idealized surface and global wind patterns E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press.
011 Figure 2.4. The Northern Hemisphere polar jet stream E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: NASA
012 Figure 2.5. Contrasting wind patterns during the (a) winter and (b) summer monsoons over southwestern Asia and the northern Indian Ocean E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Hartmann, 1994
013 Figure 2.6. The North Atlantic Oscillation in its (a) positive and (b) negative phases E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Martin Visbeck, IFM-GEOMAR, University of Kiel
014 Destruction of ozone by chlorine Cl + O3 ClO + O2 atomic chlorine + ozone chlorine monoxide + oxygen ClO + O Cl + O2 chlorine monoxide + atomic oxygen atomic chlorine + molecular oxygen E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. p. 29
015 Figure 2.7. The ozone hole E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: NASA