2.2 Fluid Environments
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| Climate is.... | Average weather over period of 30+ years
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| Areas of zonal distribution are....(6) | Polar, temperate, equatorial, mediterranian, dry topics, wet tropics
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| Zonal distribution doesnt work because....(3) | Rotating globe complicates circulation, Uneven distribution of land and sea, complications of orography
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| Earth's climate system is unique beause... | mainly having H2O in all 3 states
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| The Earth rotates every year on the..... | plane of the ecliptic
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| Earths orbit is..... | elliptical
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| When Earth is closest to sun... | perihelion
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| When Earth is furthers from the sun..... | aphelion
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| Rotates on axis which is..... | 23.5 degrees off verticle, which points at Polaris all year
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| Important dates.... | 2 solstices 2 equinoxes
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| Solar intensity is greatest at.... | sub-solar point
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| Precession.... | axis "wobbles" like spinning top (24 ka cycle) effect which hemisthere has perhelion
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| Precession proposed by | Milankovitch 1920
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| Greenhouse gasses are.... | transparent to short wave but absorb long wave, amoujnts to 33+ K
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| Greenhouse gas compositions are.... | 66% H2O, 33% carbon dioxide
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| The termal structure of earths atmosphere.....(TSMT) | Troposhere (<, 12km), Stratoshpete (> cause of ozone, 50km), Mesosphere (<, 85km) Thermoshpere(>)
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| Changing H20 requires..... | reuires energy or releases energy (latent heat)
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| The hydrologic cycle is..... | the movement of H20 around the system
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