GEOL 1080 - Research at UVU
... U.S. is produced in coal-fired power plants; ~97% of electricity in Utah comes from coal. b) Petroleum (oil). Has pollution and supply issues. Burning 1 lb of gasoline produces about 3.1 lbs of CO2, and a gallon of gas weighs about 6 lbs. Supply issue revolves around production rates more than total ...
... U.S. is produced in coal-fired power plants; ~97% of electricity in Utah comes from coal. b) Petroleum (oil). Has pollution and supply issues. Burning 1 lb of gasoline produces about 3.1 lbs of CO2, and a gallon of gas weighs about 6 lbs. Supply issue revolves around production rates more than total ...
Geography 40: Introduction to Earth System Science
... Earth System Science is an interdisciplinary field that describes the cycling of energy and matter between the different spheres (atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, and lithosphere) of the earth system. 2. What are some typical Earth System Science problems? We will learn about how the ...
... Earth System Science is an interdisciplinary field that describes the cycling of energy and matter between the different spheres (atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, and lithosphere) of the earth system. 2. What are some typical Earth System Science problems? We will learn about how the ...
AP Chapter 19 - Madeira City Schools
... c. CO2 levels have fluctuated over the last 400,000 years but never rose above 300 ppm until recently d. CO2 levels have fluctuated over the last 400,000 years and the current warming pattern fits that trend 20. How many degrees Celsius are average global temperatures expected to rise by 2100? ...
... c. CO2 levels have fluctuated over the last 400,000 years but never rose above 300 ppm until recently d. CO2 levels have fluctuated over the last 400,000 years and the current warming pattern fits that trend 20. How many degrees Celsius are average global temperatures expected to rise by 2100? ...
Class Attendance and Participation
... Sunlight reaching the Earth can heat the land, ocean, and atmosphere. Some of that sunlight is reflected back to space by the surface, clouds, or ice. Much of the sunlight that reaches Earth is absorbed and warms the planet. ...
... Sunlight reaching the Earth can heat the land, ocean, and atmosphere. Some of that sunlight is reflected back to space by the surface, clouds, or ice. Much of the sunlight that reaches Earth is absorbed and warms the planet. ...
greenhouses gases
... the sun's heat to be trapped and allow the surface of the planet to warm. Without it the surface of the planet would be too cold for life to exist. To explain the images are quotes from NASA: "Left: 1880-1889. Right: 2000-2009. These maps compare temperatures in each region of the world to what they ...
... the sun's heat to be trapped and allow the surface of the planet to warm. Without it the surface of the planet would be too cold for life to exist. To explain the images are quotes from NASA: "Left: 1880-1889. Right: 2000-2009. These maps compare temperatures in each region of the world to what they ...
Lab 3a: The present
... Northern Hemisphere ice sheets during the last glacial maximum? (a few words) Most of the ephemeral Northern Hemisphere Ice sheets were centered at 65°N 3c) Why is R. Petit (the guy who created this famous diagram) linking the δ18O record to the strength of Northern Hemisphere summers? (1 sentence) ...
... Northern Hemisphere ice sheets during the last glacial maximum? (a few words) Most of the ephemeral Northern Hemisphere Ice sheets were centered at 65°N 3c) Why is R. Petit (the guy who created this famous diagram) linking the δ18O record to the strength of Northern Hemisphere summers? (1 sentence) ...
Climate of the Earth: CO2 and Climate Change
... Stronger heating of ground causes more convection “mixing out” low clouds, which net/net cool climate Stronger convection may also generate more more cirrus as anvil cumulonimbus clouds flatten at tropopause – cirrus clouds heat climate There are more ...
... Stronger heating of ground causes more convection “mixing out” low clouds, which net/net cool climate Stronger convection may also generate more more cirrus as anvil cumulonimbus clouds flatten at tropopause – cirrus clouds heat climate There are more ...
Earth Science Power Standards - Macomb Intermediate School District
... Biochemical sedimentary rocks (e.g., chert, fossiliferous limestone) originate in ocean environments when the hard remains of marine organisms collect as sediment. Great ocean depth can be inferred from chert because calcium carbonate has high solubility in colder high pressure environments, typical ...
... Biochemical sedimentary rocks (e.g., chert, fossiliferous limestone) originate in ocean environments when the hard remains of marine organisms collect as sediment. Great ocean depth can be inferred from chert because calcium carbonate has high solubility in colder high pressure environments, typical ...
General Information on Global Warming
... What is the Greenhouse Effect? How is it related to Greenhouse Warming and Global Warming? The Greenhouse Effect is a term that describes how water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other gases in the atmosphere help maintain the temperature at the Earth's surface? The atmosphere approximates the function ...
... What is the Greenhouse Effect? How is it related to Greenhouse Warming and Global Warming? The Greenhouse Effect is a term that describes how water vapor, carbon dioxide, and other gases in the atmosphere help maintain the temperature at the Earth's surface? The atmosphere approximates the function ...
What is Ozone Depletion?
... Scientists are aware that the difference in temperatures around the world is very wide apart, but after taking readings at specific locations over a long period of time, it is observed that there are more places warming up than cooling down. From 1900-2009, global average surface temperatures rose b ...
... Scientists are aware that the difference in temperatures around the world is very wide apart, but after taking readings at specific locations over a long period of time, it is observed that there are more places warming up than cooling down. From 1900-2009, global average surface temperatures rose b ...
Global Warming
... winter. The top layer is melted over the summer and then new snow piled up on top during the following winter. This causes some of the Earth’s atmospheric gases to dissolve in the melted ice and the ice to form bands or layers. We need very old ice to measure very old atmospheric gases. ...
... winter. The top layer is melted over the summer and then new snow piled up on top during the following winter. This causes some of the Earth’s atmospheric gases to dissolve in the melted ice and the ice to form bands or layers. We need very old ice to measure very old atmospheric gases. ...
Proxy Climate Data - University of Texas at Austin
... historical, tree rings, ice cores • Proxies for more ancient climates are found in sediments or inferred from fossils and land forms • Can generally only resolve changes that occur over 100 years or greater ...
... historical, tree rings, ice cores • Proxies for more ancient climates are found in sediments or inferred from fossils and land forms • Can generally only resolve changes that occur over 100 years or greater ...
Dr. Milankovitch`s Humongous Hypothesis
... It should also be noted that the gravitational pull of the other planets of the solar system creates a wobble in Earth’s elliptical orbit, known as precession of the ellipse. The combined effect of axial precession and precession of the ellipse is to modify where the equinoxes and solstices occur in ...
... It should also be noted that the gravitational pull of the other planets of the solar system creates a wobble in Earth’s elliptical orbit, known as precession of the ellipse. The combined effect of axial precession and precession of the ellipse is to modify where the equinoxes and solstices occur in ...
420 Million years ago - Global Warming
... This means ice then was gone from almost all of Greenland, most of West Antarctica, and some of East Antarctica. 2/3 of West Antarctic ice is grounded below sea level; so is 1/3 in the East. Sediments show East Antarctic ice then retreated 100s of km inland. van de Fliert‘13 ...
... This means ice then was gone from almost all of Greenland, most of West Antarctica, and some of East Antarctica. 2/3 of West Antarctic ice is grounded below sea level; so is 1/3 in the East. Sediments show East Antarctic ice then retreated 100s of km inland. van de Fliert‘13 ...
Cool Bears + Warm Waters = Extinction?
... in the northern hemisphere, polar bears live on the expansive Arctic sea ice and primarily feed on seals. The bears have two layers of fur in addition to a fat layer that insulates them from brutally cold Arctic temperatures, which can drop below -45º C. Polar bears weigh up to 1,800 pounds and exce ...
... in the northern hemisphere, polar bears live on the expansive Arctic sea ice and primarily feed on seals. The bears have two layers of fur in addition to a fat layer that insulates them from brutally cold Arctic temperatures, which can drop below -45º C. Polar bears weigh up to 1,800 pounds and exce ...
Climate-change-worksheet
... 30% of the sunlight that reaches the top of the atmosphere is reflected back to space. Roughly twothirds of this reflectivity is due to clouds and small particles in the atmosphere known as ‘aerosols’. Light-colored areas of Earth’s surface – mainly snow, ice and deserts – reflect the remaining one- ...
... 30% of the sunlight that reaches the top of the atmosphere is reflected back to space. Roughly twothirds of this reflectivity is due to clouds and small particles in the atmosphere known as ‘aerosols’. Light-colored areas of Earth’s surface – mainly snow, ice and deserts – reflect the remaining one- ...
21 Diagnostic Test Read “World Is Skating on Thin Ice” before
... Less snowmelt in the summer ice melting. They are a threat to ships in the area. dry season to feed rivers could exacerbate the hydrological poverty This melting and shrinkage of snow/ice masses should not come as a total surprise. Swedish already affecting so many in the region. scientist Svente Ar ...
... Less snowmelt in the summer ice melting. They are a threat to ships in the area. dry season to feed rivers could exacerbate the hydrological poverty This melting and shrinkage of snow/ice masses should not come as a total surprise. Swedish already affecting so many in the region. scientist Svente Ar ...
Methane Bubbles – what they can tell us about the impacts of global
... Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering, in order to simulate the radar properties of ice containing methane bubbles. Dry sand is used in place of ice, as it has a very similar response to a radar wave. Voids simulating gas bubbles are created using expanded polystyrene within the sand. Th ...
... Department of Informatics and Systems Engineering, in order to simulate the radar properties of ice containing methane bubbles. Dry sand is used in place of ice, as it has a very similar response to a radar wave. Voids simulating gas bubbles are created using expanded polystyrene within the sand. Th ...
Slide 1
... The frozen record of the Earth's atmosphere is 3270 metres long and covers the last 650,000 years. It was obtained from the tiny air bubbles trapped in a deep ice core from Antarctica. The bubbles record how the planet’s atmosphere changed over six ice ages and the warmer periods in between. But dur ...
... The frozen record of the Earth's atmosphere is 3270 metres long and covers the last 650,000 years. It was obtained from the tiny air bubbles trapped in a deep ice core from Antarctica. The bubbles record how the planet’s atmosphere changed over six ice ages and the warmer periods in between. But dur ...
Energy Balance - Istituto Sant'Anna
... world is threatened. (eg. In locations such as the Andes of South America and Himalayas in Asia, the demise of glaciers in these regions will have potential impact on water supplies. The retreat of mountain glaciers, notably in western North America, Asia, the Alps, Indonesia and Africa, and tropica ...
... world is threatened. (eg. In locations such as the Andes of South America and Himalayas in Asia, the demise of glaciers in these regions will have potential impact on water supplies. The retreat of mountain glaciers, notably in western North America, Asia, the Alps, Indonesia and Africa, and tropica ...
energy transfer in oceans
... carbon dioxide – it is estimated that oceans currently absorb between 30-50% of the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide and water vapour affect one another to form a positive feedback loop. For example: It is estimated that a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmos ...
... carbon dioxide – it is estimated that oceans currently absorb between 30-50% of the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide and water vapour affect one another to form a positive feedback loop. For example: It is estimated that a doubling of carbon dioxide in the atmos ...
Arctic`s Biggest Ice Shelf, a Sentinel of Climate Change, Cracks Apart
... there have been warming since 1967 at the same rate as in western Antarctica: about one degree Fahrenheit per decade. The average July temperature of recent years of 34 degrees was above the temperature — 32 degrees — at which ice shelves are known to break up. The researchers said they considered t ...
... there have been warming since 1967 at the same rate as in western Antarctica: about one degree Fahrenheit per decade. The average July temperature of recent years of 34 degrees was above the temperature — 32 degrees — at which ice shelves are known to break up. The researchers said they considered t ...
The astronomical theory of the Ice Age becomes more complicated
... frequency, then for some unknown reason, the cycles apparently switched to the 100,000-year eccentricity period—a cycle with almost no radiational change on the earth.3 As identified elsewhere,4 there are many other difficulties with the astronomical theory of the ice ages. A recent quantitative est ...
... frequency, then for some unknown reason, the cycles apparently switched to the 100,000-year eccentricity period—a cycle with almost no radiational change on the earth.3 As identified elsewhere,4 there are many other difficulties with the astronomical theory of the ice ages. A recent quantitative est ...