GEG 2304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heat Flux, Amazon Rainforest, Evapotranspiration

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEG 2304
• Professor: Conrad

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In the net radiation diagrams there is a hemispheric pattern. In the meridional it is very variable in the northern hemisphere because it is ocean, continent, ocean, continent. (aka- ocean emits more radiation then land) See last class notes for conduction, convection, and evapotranspiration. Bulk flo(cid:449) (cid:373)o(cid:448)i(cid:374)g arou(cid:374)d. (cid:862)par(cid:272)el of air(cid:863). ( a (cid:271)lo(cid:272)k of air). Column of air- conceptual ideas to describe how air is moved in transformed. The atmosphere is continually trying to create the temperature equilibrium. Unless there was a uniform temperature everywhere then the atmosphere will never stop moving. Map of latent heat flux analyze-will have a question like this on the first quiz and the final (january latent heat flux) first exam is 20 marks and this question is five points so its 25% Physically what would you expect: would expect this to be the highest over the oceans and water this is because latent heat is involved with water and evapotranspiration.