GLY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Carbon Cycle, Global Dimming, Mount Pinatubo
11 Sep 2017
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What are the variety of factors that cause climate to change: greenhouse gases/ greenhouse effect. Forcing: an energy imbalance, what causes climate to change, e in does not equal e out. June 21st: when (what date) is the summer solstice, december 21st winter solstice, when is it hottest in buffalo, solstice in summer longest day, winter solstice shortest day. It takes a little while- same concept as summer and winter solstice: look at slide, earth is a fast responder. Internal: ocean variability (like el nino, externally forced, natural forcings, anthropogenic forcings (greenhouse gases, humans. Climate feedback loops: positive feedback faster, negative feedback slower, positive feedback cooling, cooling. Most of the bars in the greenhouse gases are positive therefore they are adding energy to the earth"s cli(cid:373)ate syste(cid:373) (cid:894)refer to graph(cid:895) In the troposphere it acts as a greenhouse gas. The oxide in the atmosphere breaks down into the ozone.
