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1-1 The Earth’s Climate System Forces Acting on Climate Climate Respons e Impact Climate Feedback • External Forcing - Incoming solar energy drives the climate system, volcanoes modify the climate system. • Internal Forcing - Water vapor and other gases govern how the atmosphere reacts to solar energy, producing the “greenhouse” effect that keeps the Earth habitable. Climate and Global Change Notes 1-2 The Earth’s Climate System The Earth System Solar Energy Kump, L.R., J.F. Kasting and R.G. Crane, 2004: The Earth System (2nd edition), Pearson Education, Inc., p. 3. Atmosphere Hydrosphere Biota Solid Earth Heat Energy Heat Energy Climate and Global Change Notes 1-3 The Earth’s Climate System Climate and Global Change Notes 1-4 The Earth’s Climate System QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. http://www.ucar.edu/communications/CCSM/overview.html Climate and Global Change Notes 1-5 The Earth’s Climate System Physical Climate Systems Climate Change Stratospheric Chemistry/Dynamics Sun Volcanoes Ocean Dynamics Terrestrial Energy/Moisture Global Moisture Marine/ Biogeochemistry Soil Terrestrial Ecosystems Tropospheric Chemistry Biogeochemical Systems Human Activities CO2 Human Forcing External Forcing Atmospheric Physics/Dynamics Land Use CO2 Pollutants Climate and Global Change Notes 1-6 Budgets and Cycles The Energy Budget • The movement and transformation of energy in its various forms within the Earth system • The solar cycle • The radiation budget QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. http://www.cmdl.noaa.gov/infodata/faq_cat-1.html Climate and Global Change Notes 1-7 Budgets and Cycles The Hydrologic Cycle • “The ceaseless flow of water among terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric reservoirs.” (Moran & Morgan, p. 498) http://ga.water.usgs.gov/ edu/watercycle.html Climate and Global Change Notes 1-8 Budgets and Cycles The Carbon Cycle • The flow of carbon among terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric reservoirs. (Moran & Morgan, p. 15) QuickTime™ and a TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor are needed to see this picture. http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/ climate/images/carboncycle_jpg_image.html Climate and Global Change Notes 1-9 Budgets and Cycles The Nitrogen Cycle • The flow of nitrogen among terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric reservoirs http://www.igbp.kva.se// uploads/NL_64.pdf Climate and Global Change Notes 1-10 External Forcing Solar Energy the Earth Receives • Sun’s energy is emitted in all directions • Intensity of the Sun’s energy decreases as the square of the distance from the Sun increases, i.e., Intensity a 1 / (distance )2 Sun Climate and Global Change Notes 1-11 External Forcing Solar Energy the Earth Receives • The Earth intercepts only a small portion of the Sun’s energy; about 1.716 x 1014 kilowatts Sun 150 x 106 km Earth Climate and Global Change Notes 1-12 External Forcing Solar Radiation and the Earth’s Atmosphere Total Albedo 30% 4% Reflected from Surface Incoming Solar Radiation 100% 6% Scattered by Air 20% Reflected by Clouds 25% Direct 26% Diffuse 16% Absorbed 3% Absorbed by Clouds by Air 51% Absorbed at the Earth's Surface Climate and Global Change Notes 1-13 External Forcing Radiation • Energy per unit time per unit area; cal / ( s - m2 ) or watts / m2 Climate and Global Change Notes 1-14 External Forcing Volcanic Activity • Tree-ring width vs year of eruption - • Growth index for the 24 largest volcanoes Temperature vs year of eruption - Composite global surface temperature change near the time of the five volcanoes producing the greatest optical depths since 1880: Krakatau (1883), Santa Maria (1902), Agung (1963), El Chichon (1982) and Pinatubo (1991) Climate and Global Change Notes 1-15 Changes Temperature Change Science Concepts Observations Number Location Climate and Global Change Notes 1-16 Changes - Temperature What do we mean by global warming? How do we measure the temperature of the globe? Climate and Global Change Notes 1-17 Changes - Temperature NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Station Data • Anomalies from 1951-1980 average global temperature • Linear trend is 0.06°C per decade - Total change for the 120 years is about 0.7°C Data from http://data.giss.nasa.gov/ gistemp/graphs/ Climate and Global Change Notes 1-18 Changes - Temperature Global Climate Laboratory Temperature Stations in 1900 Peterson, T.C., and R.S. Vose, 1997: An overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network temperature database, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 2837-2849. Climate and Global Change Notes 1-19 Changes - Temperature Global Climate Laboratory Temperature Stations in 1997 Peterson, T.C., and R.S. Vose, 1997: An overview of the Global Historical Climatology Network temperature database, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 78, 2837-2849. Climate and Global Change Notes 1-20 Changes - Temperature NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies Surface Station Data • Anomalies from 1951-1980 base period http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ graphs/Fig.A2.pdf 2005 Anomalies (°C) http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/2005/ http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/ graphs/Fig.A3.pdf Climate and Global Change Notes 1-21 Changes - Temperature • Surface data Trend = 0.168°C per decade • Satellite loweratmosphere data Trend = 0.132°C per decade Climate and Global Change Notes 1-22 Changes - Temperature Temperature Anomalies • Satellite measured lower-atmosphere temperature anomalies El Nino La Nina Pinatubo Climate and Global Change Notes 1-23 Human Impacts on Climate Adopted by American Geophysical Union Council 12/03 Human activities are increasingly altering the Earth's climate. These effects add to natural influences that have been present over Earth's history. Scientific evidence strongly indicates that natural influences cannot explain the rapid increase in global near-surface temperatures observed during the second half of the 20th century. Human impacts on the climate system include increasing concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g., carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons and their substitutes, methane, nitrous oxide, etc.), air pollution, increasing concentrations of airborne particles, and land alteration. A particular concern is that atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide may be rising faster than at any time in Earth's history, except possibly following rare events like impacts from large extraterrestrial objects. 1 of 6 Climate and Global Change Notes 1-24 Human Impacts on Climate Adopted by American Geophysical Union Council 12/03 (Con’t) Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have increased since the mid-1700s through fossil fuel burning and changes in land use, with more than 80% of this increase occurring since 1900. Moreover, research indicates that increased levels of carbon dioxide will remain in the atmosphere for hundreds to thousands of years. It is virtually certain that increasing atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will cause global surface climate to be warmer. The complexity of the climate system makes it difficult to predict some aspects of human-induced climate change: exactly how fast it will occur, exactly how much it will change, and exactly where those changes will take place. In contrast, scientists are confident in other predictions. Mid-continent warming will be greater than over the oceans, and there will be greater warming at higher latitudes. Some polar and glacial ice will melt, and the oceans will warm; both effects will contribute to higher sea levels. The hydrologic cycle will change and intensify, leading to changes in water supply as well as flood and drought patterns. There will be considerable regional variations in the resulting impacts. 2 of 6 Climate and Global Change Notes 1-25 Human Impacts on Climate Adopted by American Geophysical Union Council 12/03 (Con’t) Scientists' understanding of the fundamental processes responsible for global climate change has greatly improved during the last decade, including better representation of carbon, water, and other biogeochemical cycles in climate models. Yet, model projections of future global warming vary, because of differing estimates of population growth, economic activity, greenhouse gas emission rates, changes in atmospheric particulate concentrations and their effects, and also because of uncertainties in climate models. Actions that decrease emissions of some air pollutants will reduce their climate effects in the short term. Even so, the impacts of increasing greenhouse gas concentrations would remain. Climate and Global Change Notes 1-26 Human Impacts on Climate Adopted by American Geophysical Union Council 12/03 (Con’t) The 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change states as an objective the "...stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system." AGU believes that no single threshold level of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere exists at which the beginning of dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system can be defined. Some impacts have already occurred, and for increasing concentrations there will be increasing impacts. The unprecedented increases in greenhouse gas concentrations, together with other human influences on climate over the past century and those anticipated for the future, constitute a real basis for concern. Climate and Global Change Notes 1-27 Human Impacts on Climate Adopted by American Geophysical Union Council 12/03 (Con’t) Enhanced national and international research and other efforts are needed to support climate related policy decisions. These include fundamental climate research, improved observations and modeling, increased computational capability, and very importantly, education of the next generation of climate scientists. AGU encourages scientists worldwide to participate in climate research, education, scientific assessments, and policy discussions. AGU also urges that the scientific basis for policy discussions and decision-making be based upon objective assessment of peer-reviewed research results. Science provides society with information useful in dealing with natural hazards such as earthquakes, hurricanes, and drought, which improves our ability to predict and prepare for their adverse effects. While human-induced climate change is unique in its global scale and long lifetime, AGU believes that science should play the same role in dealing with climate change. AGU is committed to improving the communication of scientific information to governments and private organizations so that their decisions on climate issues will be based on the best Climate and Global Change Notes 1-28 Human Impacts on Climate Adopted by American Geophysical Union Council 12/03 (Con’t) The global climate is changing and human activities are contributing to that change. Scientific research is required to improve our ability to predict climate change and its impacts on countries and regions around the globe. Scientific research provides a basis for mitigating the harmful effects of global climate change through decreased human influences (e.g., slowing greenhouse gas emissions, improving land management practices), technological advancement (e.g., removing carbon from the atmosphere), and finding ways for communities to adapt and become resilient to extreme events. Climate and Global Change Notes