From the surface, it would be via convection currents
Thermal energy is transferred to the atmospheres by the heated air molecules.
The main method of thermal transference in the atmosphere is convection, conduction would only account for a fraction. Conduction works via hotter molecules transferring their energy to cooler molecules via the friction of collisions between molecules. As air has a very low molecular density conduction is poor therefore most atmospheric models will ignore it.
The ultimate source of energy available to man is the sun, the huge thermo-nuclear furnace that supplies the earth with the heat and light that are essential to life. The sun produces thermal energy (heat energy) in the form of radiation. Thermal energy is heat energy in transfer. Heat is a form of energy. When heat it is in the process of being transfered, it is called thermal energy. At a more basic level, thermal energy comes form the movement of atoms and molecules in matter. It is a form of kinetic energy produced from the random movements of those molecules.
Most things have thermal energy. Thermal energy is comes from heat and therefore anything that can generate heat has thermal energy. All living things have thermal energy.
Thermal energy is the most difficult to convert into other forms of energy.
Thermal energy is just mechanical energy on a molecular level (e.g. the motion of individual molecules). Therefore, thermal energy is stored in every molecule of the subject.
convection
The main method of thermal transference in the atmosphere is convection, conduction would only account for a fraction. Conduction works via hotter molecules transferring their energy to cooler molecules via the friction of collisions between molecules. As air has a very low molecular density conduction is poor therefore most atmospheric models will ignore it.
Convection, where the transfer of thermal energy it occurs by the actual movement of the heated air in a circular motion.
Convection, where the transfer of thermal energy it occurs by the actual movement of the heated air in a circular motion.
The ultimate source of energy available to man is the sun, the huge thermo-nuclear furnace that supplies the earth with the heat and light that are essential to life. The sun produces thermal energy (heat energy) in the form of radiation. Thermal energy is heat energy in transfer. Heat is a form of energy. When heat it is in the process of being transfered, it is called thermal energy. At a more basic level, thermal energy comes form the movement of atoms and molecules in matter. It is a form of kinetic energy produced from the random movements of those molecules.
Radiation
Most things have thermal energy. Thermal energy is comes from heat and therefore anything that can generate heat has thermal energy. All living things have thermal energy.
On Earth, the greatest source of thermal energy would be at the earth's core.
Thermal energy is the most difficult to convert into other forms of energy.
Thermal energy is the most difficult to convert into other forms of energy.
Thermal energy is just mechanical energy on a molecular level (e.g. the motion of individual molecules). Therefore, thermal energy is stored in every molecule of the subject.
Most of it will be converted to heat, via friction.