What factors determine the amount of solar radiation reaching the surface?

The three forms of matter differ in what ways?

Why does temperature decrease with height in the troposphere?

Observations show that at the top of the atmosphere in summer, more radiation is received at the poles than in the lower latitudes.  What are the implications of this?

If a location is influenced by the subtropical high in summer but by the mid-latitude cyclones in winter,  

How/why do the upper level winds differ from the surface patterns?

What factors create major departures from the zonal view of climate (i.e., what factors produce latitudinal asymmetries in climate)? 

What do the Hadley and Walker circulations have in common?

In one of the poems we read for this class, a dead speaker believes her dog to be digging on her grave because of its loyalty. However, she finds out that the dog is only digging on her grave to bury a bone and really had forgotten about its dead owner. What literary device is this an example of? 

Guido da Montefeltro