PPT-Water in Earth’s Climate System I

Current Weather Latent Heat Transfer Maritime Effect Global Water Cycle Measures of Humidity   Return and Go Over Exam I For Next Class Read second half of Chapter 5 Properties of . 1.1 A New View of Earth. answer # 1-5 (pg. 7).  . 1.2 The Earth System's Four Spheres. answer # 1-6 (pg. 12).  . 1.3 Cycles and the Earth. answer # 1-5 (pg. 18).  . Chapter review questions. answer # 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 18, 19-23 (pgs. 22-23). What is Earth Science?. What are the Earth System’s four Spheres?. What are cycles and how do they work?. System. : A kind of model often used to describe the natural world.. Closed System. : ENERGY enters and may leave, but MATTER does not leave.  . Fall Term - OLLI West: week 2, 9/23/2014. Paul Belanger. Earth's . past climate history. Earth’s deep past before the Cambrian (600 . MaBP. ): hot and cold. Earth’s past: Cambrian onward: mostly hot-house Earth;  100s parts per million (ppm). – Saturday 28. th. . March 2015 - . 8:30pm-9:30pm. Notre . Dame Earth Hour – . Wednesday 25. th. March 1015 – Period 2. ‘Use . your power to change climate . change’. What is Earth Hour?. PROBUS SEPT 11 2017. SCIENCE . IS EVIDENCE BASED LOGICAL REASONING.  .  . WE . SCUTTLE OURSELVES WITH . WRONG ASSUMPTIONS.  .  . I . WILL TALK OF THE EARTH EVIDENCE AND AGW.  .  . BUT . THE EVIDENCE IS MORE INTERESTING FOR . The Sun-Earth-Moon System. The relationships between the Sun, Moon, and Earth are important to us in many ways. . The Sun-Earth-Moon System. The Sun provides light and warmth, and it is the source of most of the energy that fuels our society. . Climatology. is . the study of Earth’s climate and the factors that affect past, present, and future climatic changes.. Climate describes annual variations of temperature, precipitation, wind, and other weather factors.. Climate is influenced by a variety of processes, including geologic processes. Volcanism. Sea-floor spreading. Configuration of landmasses due to plate tectonics. Climate changes impact geologic processes. The concept of climate forcing, and some Basic understandings of Heat, Temperature, Feedbacks, and physics time scales . The Earth Climate System is Ultimately in Contact with Our Astronomical Surroundings. Two . Adelie. penguins stand atop a block of melting ice on a rocky shoreline at Cape Denison, Commonwealth Bay, in East Antarctica January 1, 2010. PAULINE ASKIN/REUTERS. Jenny Pollock . HOD . Climatology. is . the study of Earth’s climate and the factors that affect past, present, and future climatic changes.. Climate describes annual variations of temperature, precipitation, wind, and other weather factors.. What is Climate?. As a Group come up with a definition of this term. Just use each others brains, no other resources. . Climate. Climate. is the pattern of weather that occurs in an area over many years. . Examples of the both fine-scale and larger-scale signature of climate and climate history include:. Effect of differences in climate on landforms . Relict . topography formed by now inactive . processes.. Climate prediction is coming of age?. El Nino. + Southern Oscillation. = ENSO. Man induced climate change. Impacts on Water Resources may be significant. Changed Climate. Advanced Warning. Goal?. A basic quantitative understanding of how the global climate system works, to allow informed assessment of climate based forecasts and their role in hydrology and water resources systems..