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Global Warming
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1. Help darkens the snow and ice surface - increasing the amount of energy that is absorbed.
Is precipitation around the world increasing?
Air pollution
Thermokarst Lake
Mass Budget
2. Is not an externally imposed perturbation to the climate system.
Precipitation and High Latitudes
Inversion Layer Winter
Why Water Vapor is not a climate forcing
Thermohaline Circulation
3. Warming- positive feedback - Cooling- negative feedback.
Mass Budget
What effects the density
Rainy
Ice-Albedo
4. Clouds 40~90% - Vegetation 10~15%
Warm
Sublimation
Types of Albedo
Dry
5. Volcanic eruptions - Sunspots - Wobbly Earth
Inversion Layer Winter
Natural Causes of Warming
Precipitation and High Latitudes
Absolute thresholds
6. Changes in the Earth's solar radiation levels can impact the climate. Shortterm warming cycles on Earth.
Sunspots
Thermohaline Circulation
Melt
How to define a heatwave
7. Laser radar - H V - Long time series - high accuracy - Density
Calving
Increases - decreases
30%
Altimetry (height)
8. Average molecular life span is less than 10 years - Major sources: Wetlands and oceans - Raising cattle and landfills.
Cause of break of inversion layers or decrease in frequency
Sunspots
Methane
Effect of Deforestation on CO-2
9. Deep tropics between 15O N and 15 O S are quite rainy on yearly average. In these regions - rising air predominates.
Why Water Vapor is not a climate forcing
Rainy
Depth v Surface
The Ozone Hole
10. A climate forcing agent formed through the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels - biofuel - and biomass; emitted both anthropogenic:ally and naturally.
Black Carbon
In the troposphere that we live in.
US and precipitation
Thermohaline Circulation Effect
11. Over the Northern Hemisphere than the tropics.
Altimetry Pros
Wetter; drier
Where rise in OC is greatest
Monthly maximums and minimums
12. Troposphere - Stratosphere (Ozone Layer) - Mesosphere - Ionosphere
Positive feedbacks both found in...
Changes in Arctic sea-ice Extent
Thermohaline Circulation
Atmospheric Structure
13. 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%
summer
Radiative Forcing
Albedos of Snow and Ice
45%
14. The land-surface configuration that results from the melting of ground ice in a region where permafrost degrades is called Thermokarst.
Carbon Dioxide
All Greenhouse gases
Thermokarst
Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
15. 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
Reduction in sea-ice extent
Effect of Deforestation on CO-2
Permafrost
Sublimation
16. Pollution: heat and sunlight cook the air and the chemical compounds which are in it. This combines with the nitrogen oxide and creates 'smog'. This makes breathing difficult for those with respiratory ailments.
Indirect heat wave effect
Ice Motion
Surface Mass Balance
Why ice-albedo feedback is a big deal in the Arctic
17. Set up in 1988 by WMO and UNEP.
IPCC
Mass Balance
More rain means no drought
Why ice-albedo feedback is a big deal in the Arctic
18. A dome shaped cover of perennial ice and snow.
Altimetry Cons
Hydrological Drought
Ice Cap
In the troposphere that we live in.
19. The warmer the temperature - the deeper the active layer - thaws and refreezes every year - Permafrost below freezing for two or more years.
Wetter; drier
Surface Mass Balance
Ice Shelf
Active Layer
20. Measures input and output.
Mass Budget
Effect of Deforestation on CO-2
Cause of break of inversion layers or decrease in frequency
Black Carbon
21. 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
Very small portion
Monthly maximums and minimums
Inversion Layer Winter
El Nino
22. Descending Air dry - Convection cells are wet.
Atmospheric Circulation
IPCC
How talik forms under lakes
Ice loss
23. Reduction of snow and ice cover - Changes in atmospheric circulation.
Depth v Surface
Cause of break of inversion layers or decrease in frequency
Ice-Albedo
Methane
24. Like weighing oneself on the scale.
Amount of light actually reaching the Earth
Time Variable Gravity
Grounding Lines
Ice Shelf
25. 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
Threshold departures
Types of Albedo
Contributions to CO2 from different activities
Altimetry Pros
26. Greenhouse gases are a ___ portion of the atmosphere
Atmospheric Structure
Very small portion
Thermokarst
20%
27. SALTY WATER = MORE DENSE - Maximum density at 4OC - This is why ice melting is a big deal; if the whole circle slows down - Ice bergs are fresh water higher sea level rise.
Normal condition for air
Ice Shelf
What effects the density
Open talik
28. 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.
Thickness of the active layer and the permafrost depend on this
Dynamic thinning
Why the Arctic climate is special
Major distinction between Kyoto Protocol and Convention
29. Sea ice extent in Antarctica is rapidly reducing. Seasonal variability. People - Animals and Ice
Where rise in OC is greatest
Sea Ice Extent is Changing in Antarctica as well
Dry
Ice/snow
30. Nitrogen (N2 78%) and Oxygen (O2 21%) - Their linear 2 atom molecular structure
Warm
Today melting ice
Mass Budget
Atmospheric Composition
31. Number of days when temperatures climb above average by a fixed amount.
Sea Ice
Warm
Closed talik
Threshold departures
32. Over the past century what has happened to the Earth's temperature?
Some regions of the Earth have warmed faster than other regions.
Ice-Albedo
Normal condition for air
Increase in the amount of water vapor or cloud vapor - Volcanic eruptions
33. Heat is provided by outside sources that flow down the continental slope to reach the deepest part of the glacier. High pressure decreases the melting point and favors melting.
Precipitation and High Latitudes
Some parts of the planet are dry because of their location
Thermohaline Circulatoin
7%
34. Under higher pressure the melting point decreases ____ - The pressure comes from the weight of the ice shelf.
Absolute thresholds
In the troposphere that we live in.
Rainy
75-OC
35. 23 -45 degrees. The Larger the tilt the larger the variability of the seasons.
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36. In ________- inversion layer is more common in the Arctic
7%
Earth's tilt
What effects the density
winter
37. In troposphere = greenhouse warming gas - However - most of it is in the stratosphere.
doubles
Active Layer
Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
Ozone
38. By contrast reflects only about 7% of solar radiation (Albedo~7%) - absorbing 93%.
Ocean water
Rainy
Ozone Hole
Why ice-albedo feedback is a big deal in the Arctic
39. Rain is getting harder and the rain is lasting longer since the past couple of decades and will continue for that amount.
Why the Arctic climate is special
air can warm dramatically
Ice Shelf
US and precipitation
40. Peru and Ecuador to the equatorial central pacific - Causes irregular warming in sea surface
Discontinuous
El Nio is in the coasts of...
Snow and snow covered ice absorb
Altimetry Pros
41. 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.
Methane
Some parts of the planet are dry because of their location
Black Carbon
Change in vegetation generates a further feedback
42. In average: +1% in respect to 100 years ago.
Atmospheric Circulation
Nitrous Oxide (N2O)
Is precipitation around the world increasing?
El Nio is in the coasts of...
43. Positive Albedo Feedback - increase in temperature melts ice and snow reduces albedo increases temperature melts ice and snow reduces albedo... ETC
Surface Mass Balance
75-OC
Altimetry
Ice/snow
44. Total absorbed solar radiation
Altimetry Pros
El Nino
Ice Sheets
70%
45. 1.4 USA - 57 m total sea level equivalent
Snow and snow covered ice absorb
Antarctica
Wetter; drier
Infrared radiation
46. South polar vortex - Temperatures drop below 80O Celsius in the lower stratosphere - At these temperatures the chemicals in the stratosphere freeze and form Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSCS) - These increase the concentration of CFCs in turn destroyi
What happens with the Ozone Hole
In the troposphere that we live in.
Threshold departures
Methane
47. The last portion of a glacier grounded to bedrock - after this line there are ice shelves.
Grounding Lines
Antarctica
Thermokarst
Cause of break of inversion layers or decrease in frequency
48. Same as heating an apartment v home - Thinner atmosphere than tropics; warms faster.
Arctic Atmosphere
Depth v Surface
Threshold departures
How to define a heatwave
49. 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
Altimetry (height)
Energy Budget
Importance of ice sheets
Archimedes' Principle
50. Is best viewed as a combination of...- Natural Variability - Associated with atmospheric circulation patterns - Growing Radiative Forcing - Associated with rising concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases - Strongly suggests a human influence.
25%
El Nio is in the coasts of...
70%
Ice loss