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Heat and Water Budgets

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Climate Dynamics of the Tropics

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Net radiation at the upper boundary of the planet Earth amounts to a heat gain in the tropics and a loss in higher latitudes. Redistribution of energy over the continents takes place exclusively in the atmosphere, whereas in the realm of the vast tropical oceans both atmosphere and hydrosphere cooperate in the heat export to other parts of the globe. The partitioning of atmospheric versus oceanic heat transport is of fundamental interest in global energetics. Sea-air interaction processes play an important role in this context. Because of the latent heats involved in phase changes, the continuity of water is directly related to that of energy.

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Hastenrath, S. (1991). Heat and Water Budgets. In: Climate Dynamics of the Tropics. Atmospheric Sciences Library, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3156-8_5

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