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Climate Management Issues
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Climate Management Issues

by Julie K. Gines
December 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
470 pages
16h 40m
English
CRC Press
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376 Climate Management Issues
clouds will dissipate and allow more thermal energy to escape to outer
space. The reason this is so difcult to model consistently is because clouds
are constantly shifting, separating, growing, and shrinking. In addition, the
only way to study them is through remote sensing—the utilization of satel-
lite imagery and digital image-processing software.
Today, some of the “simple” models that can be run on desktop comput-
ers are comparable to what was once considered state of the art for even
the most advanced computers in the 1960s. As a comparison, the computers
used by NASA during the Apollo missions occupied an entire room. Today,
those same programs can be run on a desktop computer. Computer models ...
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ISBN: 9781439861066