Chapter 8- Climate And Climate Change Flashcards
Who was Wladimir Koppen and what did he do?
He created the climate classification system
How many climates did koppen creat and what was added after his death?
5
Highland
What are climate A?
Tropical Humid:
Tropical wet
Tropical savanna
Tropical monsoon
Lack of cold
Winter less
Prevalence of moisture
Types based on rainfall
What are climate B?
Dry: Subtropical Desert Subtropical steppe Midlatitude desert Midlatitude steppe
Lack of moisture in the air
Balance of precipitation and evapotranspiration
What are climate C
Mild Midlatitude:
Mediterranean
Humid subtropical
Marine west coast
Mild consistent temperature
Characterized by rainfall
Westerly winds
What are climate D?
Severe Midlatitude:
Humid continental
Subarctic
Remoteness from oceans
Four clear seasons
What are climate E
Polar:
Tundra
Ice cap
No month average above 10 C
Enduring cold
Little precipitation or evapotranspiration
What is paleoclimatology?
Study of things that cause climate change
What are types of proxy data?
Dendrochronology Oxygen Isotopes Ice cores Pollen Glacial Landforms Speleothems
What is Dome C?
Base in Antarctica that extracts ice cores. Concentration of co2 temp snowfall
What are the milankovitch cycles and how long is each cycle
Long term astronomical cycles involving earths inclination precession and eccentricity of orbit
EO 100,000
P 25,800
T 41,000
How to prove climate change?
Co2 with fossil fuels
C14 is the atmosphere
How is the warming of the arctic different from the warming of the planet whole
2x as fast
What are climate models? And how are they tested!
Computer simulations that predict future climate changes
Present
Past
What is Kyoto protocol
Agreement to cut greenhouse emissions by 5% by 2012
