GEOG 3105- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)
29 Mar 2018
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Anthropocene: geological period dominated and highly influenced by humans. Climate is comprised of: temperature; precipitation; wind; clouds; means; variability; probabilities of certain events; cycles (diurnal, seasonal, annual, and decadal) Climate change: changes in the mean, variation, and cycles of climate over a long period of time. Global warming increase in earth"s average surface temperature due to anthropogenic factors. Ipcc: intergovernmental panel on climate change; has 3 working groups: scientific aspects of the climate system and of climate change, consequences of climate change, options for limiting greenhouse gas emissions and mitigating climate change. Sensible heat: heat increase represented by temperature (0k = -273. 15c) Latent heat can"t be measured by temperature; is the heat required/released during change of state: water latent heat of fusion: 332 kj/kg, water latent heat of vaporization: 2260kj/kg. Heat capacity: amount of heat required to change a substances temperature by 1 j: water: 4. 18.
