GEOG 1350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Climate Change, Linear Motor, Celestial Equator
1 Jun 2016
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Climate change is climate variability (i. e. global warming) Five components of the climate system *quiz*: atmosphere. Response time: a measure of the time it takes the climate system to react fully to some imposed change in the forcing (i. e. boiling water: forcing source of heat; response temperature of water) Equilibrium: state of climatic stability toward which the climate system is moving and at which it will eventually remain. Rate of response time: amount of time it takes for half the remaining warming needed to achieve equilibrium to occur (initially very rapid, slows as time passes) Forcing vs response time depends on the aspect of the climate system we are interested in. Relative size of the time scale over which the force is applied vs time in which the climate system can naturally response determines what will actually happen in the climate system. If forcing is slow compared to the climate system"s response:
