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a) Briefly (in a few sentences at most) describe the fundamentalinteractions between solar radiation and the Earths' atmosphere.What happens to the energy absorbed by the Earth? What differentforms does the energy take during each interaction?

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Physics: Principles with Applications
7th Edition, 2013
Giancoli
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