Greenhouse effect

The greenhouse effect, first discovered by Joseph Fourier in 1824, is the process by which an atmosphere warms a planet.

References

• Earth Radiation Budget, http://marine.rutgers.edu/mrs/education/class/yuri/erb.html
• Fleagle, RG and Businger, JA: An introduction to atmospheric physics, 2nd edition, 1980
• Fraser, Alistair B., Bad Greenhouse http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadGreenhouse.html
• Giacomelli, Gene A. and William J. Roberts1, Greenhouse Covering Systems, Rutgers University, downloaded from: http://ag.arizona.edu/ceac/research/archive/HortGlazing.pdf on 3-30-2005.
• Henderson-Sellers, A and McGuffie, K: A climate modelling primer (quote: Greenhouse effect: the effect of the atmosphere in re-readiating longwave radiation back to the surface of the Earth. It has nothing to do with glasshouses, which trap warm air at the surface).
• Idso, S.B.: Carbon Dioxide: friend or foe, 1982 (quote: ...the phraseology is somewhat in appropriate, since CO2 does not warm the planet in a manner analogous to the way in which a greenhouse keeps its interior warm).
• Kiehl, J.T., and Trenberth, K. (1997). Earth's annual mean global energy budget, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 78 (2), 197–208.
• Piexoto, JP and Oort, AH: Physics of Climate, American Institute of Physics, 1992 (quote: ...the name water vapor-greenhouse effect is actually a misnomer since heating in the usual greenhouse is due to the reduction of convection)
• Wood, R.W. (1909). Note on the Theory of the Greenhouse, Philosophical Magazine 17, p319–320. For the text of this online, see http://www.wmconnolley.org.uk/sci/wood_rw.1909.html