UCSD ESYS 10 Introduction to Environmental Systems Winter 2006 January 26

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Powerpoint lecture

Reading: Complete Chapter 3 Kump, Casting and Crane

Problems due Tuesday Jan. 31:

Chapter 3 Review questions: 3, 5, 10, 12

Chapter 3 Critical-thinking problems: 1 and 5a

Topics:

Atmospheric composition nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and some other stuff

Atmospheric Composition (Florida State University)
Earth's atmosphere (NASA) (great site)

Atmospheric structure layers of the atmosphere

Earth's atmospheric layers and long-term temperature trends (NASA)

Temperature inversions in the troposphere (USA Today)

Greenhouse effect

Bad Greenhouse (why the term greenhouse effect is not the same as global warming)
How "greenhouse effect" works (USA Today Weather)

Clouds and radiation

Cloud types (Plymouth State University)
Cloud types (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA)

Climate modeling and climate feedbacks

World Climate Research Programme
Climate Change 2001 (IPCC)
Climate Change Solutions

Discussion completion: Case study 1: Low emissions vehicles

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Cloud types from NASA education website: http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/weather/pricloud/

Cirrus

Cumulus

Cumulonimbus

Stratus (nimbostratus where raining)

Greenhouse cartoon from USA Today (see site listed above): relates only to the outgoing radiation from the earth. (does not show incoming solar, reflection, etc - see textbook figure for all)

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Last modification Jan. 26 2006

email: Lynne Talley