Please help with a weather question....about the climate system!?

Question

I'm not understanding this......

How is energy and moisture exchanged between the climate system's 5 spheres? (atmosphere, hydrosphere, solid earth, biosphere & cryosphere)

Can anyone just give me in general, some facts about this? I have a ton of notes that the teacher gave us about this but they are all so unorganized so I'm really just trying to figure out about where the answers are in the packet! But I can't do this because I have no idea what the answer would be. lol.

Thank you for your help! :)

Answer 1

Read This an excellent overview of climate energy exchanges and moisture

http://www.indiana.edu/~geol105/1425chap...

Answer 2

The atmospheric distribution of ozone and its role in the Earth’s energy budget is unique. Ozone in the lower part of the atmosphere, the troposphere and lower stratosphere, acts as a greenhouse gas. Higher up in the stratosphere there is a natural layer of high ozone concentration, which absorbs solar ultra-violet radiation. In this way this so-called ozone layer plays an essential role in the stratosphere’s radiative balance, at the same time filtering out this potentially damaging form of radiation.

Beside these gases, the atmosphere also contains solid and liquid particles (aerosols) and clouds, which interact with the incoming and outgoing radiation in a complex and spatially very variable manner. The most variable component of the atmosphere is water in its various phases such as vapour, cloud droplets, and ice crystals. Water vapour is the strongest greenhouse gas. For these reasons and because the transition between the various phases absorb and release much energy, water vapour is central to the climate and its variability and change.

The hydrosphere is the component comprising all liquid surface and subterranean water, both fresh water, including rivers, lakes and aquifers, and saline water of the oceans and seas. Fresh water runoff from the land returning to the oceans in rivers influences the ocean’s composition and circulation. The oceans cover approximately 70% of the Earth’s surface. They store and transport a large amount of energy and dissolve and store great quantities of carbon dioxide. Their circulation, driven by the wind and by density contrasts caused by salinity and thermal gradients (the so-called thermohaline circulation), is much slower than the atmospheric circulation. Mainly due to the large thermal inertia of the oceans, they damp vast and strong temperature changes and function as a regulator of the Earth’s climate and as a source of natural climate variability, in particular on the longer time-scales

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