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So far we have introduced the different ways in which solar and planetary radiation interact with the atmosphere and the surface. We have not fixed any particular number and also we have been rather vague on how the vertical or latitudinal distribution of temperature is determined. We have the means now to do that and will start by looking at what we know about the radiative balance of the Earth-atmosphere system. We can refer to a classic figure like Figure 14.1 which appears in different disguises in most of textbooks.
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Visconti, G. (2001). Simple Climate Models. In: Fundamentals of Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04540-4_14
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