CRITICALLY EVALUATE THE FACTORS INFLUENCING THE GLOBAL HEAT BUDGET - 40 MARKS The global heat budget is the balance between incoming insolation, and outgoing radiation from Earth. There are many factors that influence this heat budget, some of which are more important than others. In this essay I am going to describe and explain each factor involved. Insolation is the incoming energy from the sun in shortwave ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The distribution of insolation over the Earth’s surface
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Grosvenor, Roble and de Castro - Global W arming and Glaciers The Traprock, Vol. 3, M ay 2004, pp 16 - 19 16 Global Warming and its Effects on Glaciers Andrew Grosvenor, Will Roble and Marcus de Castro The addition of more greenhouse gasses to earth’s atmosphere has been blocking an increased amount of the heat radiated out from the earth’s surface. This in turn has lead to higher average global temperatures, or global warming. One of the main problems posed by this development is the melting
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Global Warming and Hurricane Katrina INT 1- Task 1 What is Global Warming? — Global Warming is the rise in temperatures we are currently experiencing on this planet. It is projected to continue with devastating effects on the environment. — Since 1880 the average temperature around the world has risen 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit. (NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies) — The 1980’s and 1990’s were the hottest decades in the last 400 according to a number of climate studies — The beginning
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Examine Figure 14.13. Given your understanding of the conditions required for the formation of a thunderstorm, why would there be so many thunderstorms in eastern Colorado and northeastern New Mexico? What is so special about this relatively small area? A thunderstorm forms when moist, unstable air is lifted vertically into the atmosphere. Lifting of this air results in condensation and the release of latent heat. Immediately after lifting begins, the rising parcel of warm moist air begins to
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the water takes between these reservoirs as mentioned are called the pathways or flows. The main ways of travel between the various types of reservoirs are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and surface and underground flow (Egger, 2003). These more specific pathways or flows are evaporation, precipitation and snowmelt runoff. The evaporation transports the water to the atmosphere, rain and or snow than falls back down to the earth surface, and snowmelt turns into a liquid that consequently
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Precipitation Reactions 2-4: Precipitation Reactions 1. Start Virtual ChemLab and select Reactions and Stoichiometry, and then select Precipitation Reactions from the list of assignments. The lab will open in the Inorganic laboratory. 2. React each of the cations (across the top) with each of the anions (down the left) according to the data table using the following procedures: Data Table | |AgNO3 (Ag+) |Pb(NO3)2
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What would happen if the Gulf Stream failed? Undoubtedly, the gulf stream is the biggest stream in the world which is calculated around 80-100 km wide and 800-1200 meters in depth and travels with a maximum speed of 2 meters per second. In the gulf stream region, heating of the lower part of the atmosphere is very strong. The gulf stream transports the warm water waves near the surface which encourage water to evaporate and make the water salty. This is the reason that winds carry warmth and plentiful
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Udyr's silent tirade "A slave... Is this what I am now?" Udyr's reflection became turbid as the drizzle turned into a solid hail. He welcomed it. Storm was raging in the bar-less prison of his mind. "Is this my lot in life? Shackled on this puny piece of land, obediently following the orders of vapid summoners?" The rain chased every living soul into cover. The last bit of tedious smell coming from Demacia was washed away. The irony made him chuckle. It was not so long ago when he had to fight
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mountains, learning how to use a GPS and how to calculate bearings as well as timings. Duke of Edinburgh was a wonderful experience for me, it also gave me a good excuse to spend two days with my friends! A desert is a massive land where little precipitation occurs and living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life. A desert is formed by weathering processes as large variations in temperature between day and night put strains on the rocks which consequently break in pieces. Our aim, as the
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Snowfall To Rainfall Snowfall to Rainfall Essay People have lived with snow and rain for years now. What if you had to choose to live in a place that either gets only heavy rain or heavy snow? Which would you choose? There is a lot you need to know before you make your answer. If rain is more your “kind of weather then remember”, rain can have many good and bad effects to it. When it rains it usually has lightning and thunder with it. Many people are afraid of thunder but more are afraid of lightning
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