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Global Warming
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1. Arctic warms faster than other parts of the globe in response to a given increase in greenhouse gasses - More direct route to warming - In the Arctic a greater fraction of any increase in radiation absorbed by the surface goes directly into warming t
.7O Celsius over the past century.
Why the Arctic climate is special
Ice Shelf
70%
2. Holds unique and key information - Are highly interconnected - Respond and drive climate change - Are the largest freshwater reservoirs of the planet - Ice cores tell us that in climate records - nothing is regular and ice sheet plays major role.
Radiative Flux
Ice Sheets
All Greenhouse gases
More rain means no drought
3. Warming- positive feedback - Cooling- negative feedback.
Ice-Albedo
Accumulation
winter
Thermohaline Circulatoin
4. Frozen +2 years - Few centimeters to 1500 m
Air pollution
Mass Balance
Permafrost
Meteorological Drought
5. Set up in 1988 by WMO and UNEP.
Time Variable Gravity
Thickness of the active layer and the permafrost depend on this
IPCC
Thermohaline Circulation
6. Trade winds blow from East to West - Pool of warm water in the west - Meanwhile deep colder water rises up in the Eastern Pacific - The sea level is ~ 50-60 cm higher in Western Pacific (Indonesia) than in the Eastern Pacific (South America/Peru) -
summer
Normal condition for air
Troposphere
Types of Albedo
7. Pockets of ice in the topmost permafrost caused by thawing which create an underground lake.
Reduction in sea-ice extent
What effects the density
Thermokarst
Effect of Deforestation on CO-2
8. 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:
1 m/yr; 10x
Thermohaline Circulation
70%
Melt
9. Descending Air dry - Convection cells are wet.
Effect of Deforestation on CO-2
Atmospheric Circulation
Surface Mass Balance
Through talik
10. The past climate...for this reason - both keep good records of climate change.
Major distinction between Kyoto Protocol and Convention
Thickness of the active layer and the permafrost depend on this
Albedo
Ozone Hole
11. Hydrological drought is associated with the effect of low rainfall on water levels in rivers -!reservoirs -!lakes and aquifers.
Hydrological Drought
summer
How talik forms under lakes
Ozone Hole
12. The heat input is either driven by the 1- thermohaline circulation associated with sea ice formation. The direct influx of intermediate warmth water.
Permafrost
Climate Change in the Arctic
Heat Source and Pressure
Ozone Hole
13. CO2 GHG forcing - H2O - dominant/major GHG
Talik
GHG
El Nio is in the coasts of...
Some parts of the planet are dry because of their location
14. Volcanic eruptions - Sunspots - Wobbly Earth
Accumulation
Natural Causes of Warming
Dynamic thinning
Ice-Ocean Interactions
15. Massive cooldown has allowed colder conditions to persist leading to cfcs stabilizing leading to ozone depletion. Later - more warming will lead to more moisture in the air which will lead to more snowfall!
Atmospheric Composition
Carbon Dioxide
Antarctica
GHG
16. In troposphere = greenhouse warming gas - However - most of it is in the stratosphere.
Where rise in OC is greatest
Sea Ice Extent is Changing in Antarctica as well
How the cryosphere is affected by climate change
Ozone
17. Surface Mass Balance is of the order of _____ melting is ____ times more.
1 m/yr; 10x
Very small portion
Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
Sea-Ice Albedo
18. ~10% of incident solar energy (albedo 90)
Atmospheric Composition
Ice absorbs
La Nia
Positive feedbacks both found in...
19. Prolonged period of excessively hot weather - Which may be accompanied by high humidity.
Mass Balance
How we measure Mass Balance
Warm
Heat wave
20. Number of days that exceed a given temperature
Agricultural Drought
Negative Ice-Albedo Feedback
Warm
Absolute thresholds
21. Changes over time in the highest and lowest single temperature observed during a given month of the year.
Altimetry
Monthly maximums and minimums
Some regions of the Earth have warmed faster than other regions.
.7O Celsius over the past century.
22. The depletion of stratospheric ozone layer in Antarctica in Springtime (august through October)
The Ozone Hole
Cloud Feedbacks
Ocean water
7%
23. Higher temperature increases atmospheric water vapor @ global scale more water vapor in the air that causes nights to stay warmer.
Monthly maximums and minimums
Atmospheric Structure
Altimetry Cons
Global warming and hot nights?
24. An area of unfrozen ground that is open to the ground surface but otherwise enclosed in permafrost.
Open talik
Ocean water
In the troposphere that we live in.
Ozone Hole
25. Betts et al found that: if CO-2 __________ this has a physiological effect on plant transpiration increased simulated runoff by 6% b. How? i. More CO2 1. Plants pores open less 2. This reduces transpiration 3. More water in the land surface
Strong
doubles
Active Layer
How the cryosphere is affected by climate change
26. In average: +1% in respect to 100 years ago.
Infrared radiation
How talik forms under lakes
Is precipitation around the world increasing?
Sea ice melt does not change sea level
27. Nitrogen (N2 78%) and Oxygen (O2 21%) - Their linear 2 atom molecular structure
Permafrost
Negative
Atmospheric Composition
Rainy
28. Sea ice and continental ice. This is caused by Atmospheric warming triggers.
La Nia
Inversion Layer Summer
Positive feedbacks both found in...
Wetter; drier
29. 78% nitrogen - 28% oxygen - Greenhouse gases: Have a more complex molecular structure and can absorb and re:radiate heat in all directions.
Cloud Feedbacks
Importance of ice sheets
Atmospheric Composition?
Radiative Forcing
30. 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
Indirect heat wave effect
La Nia
Wetter; drier
31. x7 smaller - 7m total sea level equivalent.
Infrared radiation
summer
Greenland
Ice in the Arctic
32. 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.
Altimetry
Greenhouse Gases
.75OC/km-1
Discontinuous
33. The warmer the temperature - the deeper the active layer - thaws and refreezes every year - Permafrost below freezing for two or more years.
Albedos of Snow and Ice
Thermohaline Circulation
Active Layer
Ozone Hole
34. High cloud has a _____ effect and cool cloud has a ____ effect
Once every 4 years.
Warming; cooling
Some parts of the planet are dry because of their location
Frozen Soil
35. They saw a massive thinning of the ice where it enters into the ocean - This is due to the pronounced melting of the ice once it is in contact with the ocean. Melt rates of 25 m/year near the grounding lines and more than 10 m/year on average.
Ice-Ocean Interactions
El Nino
Strong
Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation
36. The last portion of a glacier grounded to bedrock - after this line there are ice shelves.
Hydrological Drought
Grounding Lines
IN the last 2 decades what we've seen
Antarctica
37. he increase of ozone concentration in the atmosphere helps ____ our planet
Active Layer
Warm
Some regions of the Earth have warmed faster than other regions.
Atmospheric Composition?
38. Fresh snow and snow-covered sea ice may have an albedo higher than 80% - even when melting in the summer. Sea ice has a higher albedo and can absorb as little as 10% of the solar energy. On average - sea ice albedo is around 85%
50%
Thinner atmosphere
Permafrost Degradation
Albedos of Snow and Ice
39. Really measures volume.
Altimetry
30%
Negative Ice-Albedo Feedback
Black Carbon
40. Average molecular life span is less than 10 years - Major sources: Wetlands and oceans - Raising cattle and landfills.
Grounding v Surface Melting
Ice loss
Methane
Albedos of Snow and Ice
41. 342 W/m squared - DWEC - These things reflect sunlight (30%): water vapor - clouds - dust particles - earth's surface
Average radiative flux reaching the atmosphere
Shortwave Length
Active Layer
Closed talik
42. Summer increase in cloud cover - Winter decrease in cloud cover.
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43. High clouds are a ____ feedback; larger greenhouse warming - Clouds reflect shortwave radiation but also absorb longwave radiation
Some regions of the Earth have warmed faster than other regions.
Positive
Longwave Radiation
Grounding Lines
44. Tundra absorbs more energy than ice and snow but less than scrubs and forest - and with those plants migrating towards the north - they will further contribute ot absorb more energy.
Climate Change in the Arctic
Greenland
Monthly maximums and minimums
Change in vegetation generates a further feedback
45. 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
Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
doubles
Atmospheric Circulation
Reduction in sea-ice extent
46. CO2 ____ in winter in the NH and ____ decreases during the 'greening season'
Infrared radiation
Increases - decreases
Positive feedbacks both found in...
Threshold departures
47. When meltwater seeps through a flowing glacier - it can lubricate the base and hasten the glacier's seaward flow.
Thickness of the active layer and the permafrost depend on this
30%
Dynamic thinning
Ice Motion
48. All processes that add snow or ice to a glacier or to flowing ice or snow cover.
Accumulation
What happens with the Ozone Hole
Sea Ice Extent is Changing in Antarctica as well
Types of Albedo
49. Rainy on yearly average. In these regions - rising air predominates.
What effects the density
IPCC
Deep tropics between 15O N and 15 O S are quite
20%
50. A naturally or artificially caused decrease in the thickness and/or areal extent of permafrost - It is caused by the deepening fo the active layer and the thawing of the adjacent permafrost.
El Nino
Sea Ice
Monthly maximums and minimums
Permafrost Degradation
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