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Describe how short term variations in temperature are related to the processes of receiving energy from the sun to the Earth’s surface and dissipating it to the atmosphere.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Climatology

Short-term variations in temperature are the hour-to-hour and day-to-day changes in surface and near-surface air temperature — above all the diurnal (day–night) cycle, plus the irregular swings of cloudy spells, rain and cold or warm air advection.

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  • Receiving Energy: How Much Reaches the Surface
  • Dissipating Energy: Three Pathways
  • The Diurnal Cycle and the Lag of Temperature
  • What Sets the Size of the Swing
  • What Recent Evidence Shows

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