Earth Energy Budget

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Earth Energy Budget
Source Kiehl and Trenberth
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1991 Earth Entropy Budget Source Peixoto and
Oort 1991
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2004 Earth Entropy Budget

• Entropy Sources
• Shown
• a. Frictional dissipation
• b. Latent heating
• c. Sensible heating
• Not shown
• Mixing
• PE of precipitation
• dissipation
• f. Diffusion

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Answer g. None of the above Free or
unconstrained expansion
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