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Global Warming
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1. 1. Altimetry survey 2. Time-variable gravity 3. Ice motion + Regional Climate Modeling
Ice shelf
How we measure Mass Balance
doubles
15 percent (70% is not reflected but radiated to space from clouds - atmosphere - and Earth.)
2. Floating extensions are ice shelves - rivers of ice are ice streams or outlet glaciers - the junctions with the ocean are called the grounding line.
Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Interaction
More rain means no drought
Thickness of the active layer and the permafrost depend on this
Atmospheric Circulation
3. Changes over time in the highest and lowest single temperature observed during a given month of the year.
Monthly maximums and minimums
Greenhouse Gases
Mass Budget
Warm
4. 1. Land usage changes 2. Seasonal timing 3. Rising CO2 levels may be a factor
air can warm dramatically
20%
Very small portion
Affect Floods and Droughts
5. ~10% of incident solar energy (albedo 90)
Snow and snow covered ice absorb
Surface Mass Balance
Ice Motion
Ice absorbs
6. Slow steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of Earth's stratospheric ozone.
winter
Ozone Hole
1 m/yr; 10x
Changes in Arctic sea-ice Extent
7. Forms in a mosaic of favoured locations.
How the cryosphere is affected by climate change
Sea-Ice Albedo
Discontinuous Permafrosrt
Sea ice melt does not change sea level
8. High cloud has a _____ effect and cool cloud has a ____ effect
Negative Ice-Albedo Feedback
Snow and snow covered ice absorb
Warming; cooling
Some regions of the Earth have warmed faster than other regions.
9. Most of the deserts are around 30 N and 30 S - where sinking air predominates
Positive feedbacks both found in...
Greenland
Some parts of the planet are dry because of their location
7%
10. Refers to the irregular warming in the Sea Surface Temperatures (SST) from the coasts of Peru and Ecuador to the equatorial central Pacific - the Southern Oscillation
70%
Atmospheric Circulation
50%
El Nino
11. Some parts of the planet are dry because of their location: most of the deserts are around 30 N and 30 S - where sinking air predominates
Dry
In the Arctic where the air is cooler
Why Water Vapor is not a climate forcing
Atmospheric Circulation
12. Number of days that land among the hottest of all days in that month's long-term record.
Discontinuous Permafrosrt
Percentile departures
Albedos of Snow and Ice
Altimetry Pros
13. Water vapor - 36-70% - carbon dioxide - 9-26% - methane - 4-9% - ozone - 3-7%
Grounding Lines
Indirect heat wave effect
Positive
% of Greenhouse Gases
14. The last portion of a glacier grounded to bedrock - after this line there are ice shelves.
Agricultural Drought
Severe coastal erosion
Grounding Lines
25%
15. 1.4 USA - 57 m total sea level equivalent
Antarctica
Sunspots
Discontinuous
Grounding Lines
16. The large-scale ocean circulation that moves water between the deep and surface ocean which effects salinity and temperature change - Supplies heat to the polar-regions.
Grounding Lines
Thermohaline Circulation Effect
20%
Surface Mass Balance
17. A process whereby slabs of ice at the glacier margin mechanically fracture and detach from the main ice mass -
Calving
Is precipitation around the world increasing?
Threshold departures
Radiative Flux
18. Where does the ozone protect us?
Effect of Deforestation on CO-2
In the stratosphere.
Change in vegetation generates a further feedback
Inversion Layer Summer
19. Radiation that comes from the Sun - Visible light - 'near infrared' - ultraviolet radiation.
Natural Causes of Warming
75-OC
Melt
Shortwave Length
20. CO2 GHG forcing - H2O - dominant/major GHG
Sea Ice Extent is Changing in Antarctica as well
Heat Source and Pressure
Thermohaline Circulation Effect
GHG
21. Reduction of Summer Sea- will increase the warming because less energy will be reflected back to the atmosphere by the ice and more will be absorbed by the ocean - Snow and snow covered ice absorb 15% of incident solar energy - Ice absorbs 10% of inc
Altimetry
Reduction in sea-ice extent
Surface Mass Balance
Black Carbon
22. Ice flowing from the middle of Greenland to the edges and melting. 90 feet a day- speed that ice is moving.
Ocean water
IN the last 2 decades what we've seen
Ice Discharge
50%
23. 85%
Precipitation and High Latitudes
Natural Causes of Warming
Discontinuous Permafrosrt
Sea-Ice Albedo
24. When inversion breaks up _______________. - Consequently - anything that breaks inversions or makes them form less often could produce major ground level warming.
Ozone Hole
air can warm dramatically
Ice-Ocean Interactions
Negative Ice-Albedo Feedback
25. Much of the Arctic is overlain by snow and sea ice (land ice and sea ice) - It makes warming a much bigger deal in the Arctic
Active Layer
Why ice-albedo feedback is a big deal in the Arctic
Thermohaline Circulatoin
Major distinction between Kyoto Protocol and Convention
26. Longwave radiation - any radiation with a long wave will heat up quickly.
Inversion Layer (feedback)
Atmospheric Composition?
Permafrost
Infrared radiation
27. 240 w/m squared
Positive
Amount of light actually reaching the Earth
Methane
Longwave Radiation
28. Ice sheets have a very ____ Albedo
How a closed talik forms
Earth's tilt
Strong
Open talik
29. CO2 - CH4 - O3 - H2O - N2O - CFCs
reduction in sea-ice
Inversion Layer (feedback)
Archimedes' Principle
All Greenhouse gases
30. Long time series started in the '70s and yielding good data in the '90s - Detects elevation with high accuracy: 10 cm precision (laser) to 1 m (radar) - 2/3 Gravity Surveys (GRACE) - Weighing the total mass every 30 days - Direct monthly estimate
Wetter; drier
Altimetry Pros
Through talik
What effects the density
31. High vs low
Change in vegetation generates a further feedback
Negative
Altimetry Cons
Cloud Feedbacks
32. The high pressure decreases the melting point and favors melting - Melt water being less dense rises along the water column along the ice shelf bottom and may either escape the cavity or refreeze at some intermediate depth. Melting point decreases:
Why the Arctic climate is special
Mass Budget
Warming; cooling
Thermohaline Circulation
33. What can cause a change in the Earth's climate balance?
Precipitation and High Latitudes
Increase in the amount of water vapor or cloud vapor - Volcanic eruptions
How to define a heatwave
Grounding Lines
34. Land Based Ecosystems retain ____ CO2.
30%
Altimetry Pros
Snow and snow covered ice absorb
GHG
35. The major distinction between the Protocol and the Convention is that while the Convention encouraged industrialized countries to stabilize GHG emissions - the Protocol commits them to do so.
Major distinction between Kyoto Protocol and Convention
Types of Albedo
Ice shelf
Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
36. ~15% of incident solar energy (albedo 85)
Snow and snow covered ice absorb
Thermokarst
Positive
Greenhouse Gases
37. Is defined usually on the basis of the degree of dryness (in comparison to some 'normal' or average amount
Sea Ice
Positive feedbacks both found in...
Meteorological Drought
Altimetry
38. Positive Albedo Feedback - increase in temperature melts ice and snow reduces albedo increases temperature melts ice and snow reduces albedo... ETC
Thermohaline Circulation Effect
45%
Indirect heat wave effect
Ice/snow
39. Closed talik can develop when lakes fill in with sediment and become deposits of dead plant material (bog).
air can warm dramatically
Antarctica
How a closed talik forms
Absolute thresholds
40. Amount of light absorbed by atmosphere
Thermokarst
Threshold departures
20%
Ice/snow
41. Number of days when temperatures climb above average by a fixed amount.
Ice Cap
In the stratosphere.
Hydrological Drought
Threshold departures
42. The order of 1 m/year. Melting is ten times more.
Surface Mass Balance
Methane
Dry
Natural Causes of Warming
43. A thick - floating slab of freshwater ice extending from coast to coast.
Ice Sheets
Ice shelf
More rain means no drought
Indirect heat wave effect
44. 1. They are the largest contributor to sea level rise 2. Can affect the thermohaline circulation (mainly in Greenland) 3. Are directly connected to climate change
Infrared radiation
In the stratosphere.
Importance of ice sheets
Radiative Forcing
45. Due to a set of mutually reinforcing processes - climate change appears to be progressing in the arctic more quickly than in any other region on Earth.
The cryosphere
Changes in Arctic sea-ice Extent
Albedo
Climate Change in the Arctic
46. Carbon dioxide - Methane - Ozone - Water Vapor - Few others - Most ___________________ are mixed in the troposphere (Except water vapor) - Water vapor is concentrated closer to the ground.
Deep tropics between 15O N and 15 O S are quite
Greenhouse Gases
Positive feedbacks both found in...
Ozone Hole
47. Grace - Tells us how much mass change we have - M - This is the measure of gravity (gives us the mass) - Directly measure mass change - Poor resolution
Permafrost Degradation
Mass Change
Troposphere
Wetter; drier
48. Ice melting rapidly? What type causes sea level to rise? What have been the main contributors to sea level rise so far? What are the impacts of melting ice? - On nature - On humans
Effect of Deforestation on CO-2
Questions to think about
Antarctica
Types of Albedo
49. The difference between the incoming radiation energy and the outgoing radiation energy - A measure of the net energy.
Threshold departures
The Ozone Hole
Global warming and hot nights?
Radiative Forcing
50. US is responsible for ___ of the total CO2
30%
Contributions to CO2 from different activities
Wetter; drier
Carbon Dioxide
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