Atmosphere And Weather
By: Dr Pandula Siribaddana
Second only to the Antarctic ice sheet, the Greenland ice sheet is almost 2,400 kilometers in length and around 1,100 kilometers in width at its northern margin. Roughly, the ice sheet covers around 1.7 million square kilometers, which is equivalent to around...
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What are the characteristics of a Mediterranean climate?
By: Keith Redfern
The Mediterranean Climate has hot, dry summers and warm, wet winters. This is the summary description used by many teachers, when trying to make it easy for their students to remember the climate’s main characteristics. In fact it is an accurate summary.Others describe...
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How do lake and bog sediments help us to understand past climates?
By: Dr Pandula Siribaddana
From the mid 1800s to the year 2000, scientists believe that the temperature of the earth’s surface has increased by around 0.6 Celsius, which is the highest level in recorded history. If the climate continues to change at the same pace, researchers warn...
How do lake and bog sediments help us to understand past climates?
By: Michael Prather - 660563
The natural history of this planet is fraught with biological changes. Scientists seek to determine the reasons behind these changes by reconstructing past environmental conditions. Reconstructing ancient environments without direct observational record can be challenging. Fortunately, some very important clues can be found in the...
By: Julie Thomas-Zucker
Synoptic climatology uses information obtained from dynamic climatology. That information explains how and when a weather element will come into a specific area. The differences of the two fields are subtle. Science does not see synoptic climatology as a recognized field of study yet. Dynamic...
By: Elizabeth M Young
There is no one global cooling or warming model. There are many global warming or cooling models. Most of the models have been used to process quantitative data from past observations, crunch the numbers, and produce charts, graphs and fascinating multicolored animations that show what...
By: Cameron Scott
Neither the global warming model nor the global cooling model make weather predictions. They make climate predictions, which isn't the same thing. Climate's what you can usually expect at a particular time of year. Weather's what's happening right now. What the model says The global...
By: Julie Thomas-Zucker
Blocking refers to atmospheric stagnation that can lead to many weather extremes like. floods, droughts, overly high or low temperatures along with other extreme weather conditions. Five different blocks occur with weather: Omega blocks, Rex blocks, Ring of Fire blocks, Split flows and Cut-off flows...
How does cloud seeding work to increase rainfall?
By: Dr Pandula Siribaddana
For many decades, scientists have experimented with producing artificial rain or snowstorms to counteract droughts or extreme temperatures experienced in different parts of the world. It is also known that Chinese officials used weather modification to stave off potential rainstorms or over-heating during the 2008...
What are the characteristic features of a maritime climate?
By: Litsa Podaras
Maritime climate, also known as oceanic climate, exists along the west coasts at the middle latitudes of all the world’s continents as well as southeastern Australia. More specifically, it is found along a narrow strip of coastal Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and southern Alaska...
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