Global Climates and Regional Classification
- Forces that drive climate and their global patterns
- Solar Input – Earth’s energy budget
- Seasonal cycles
- Atmospheric circulation
- Oceanic circulation
- Landform effects
- Vegetation feedbacks
- Variability in climate
- Seasonally (see I.B.)
- Yearly – El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
- Millenial D. Human impacts
Climate gives rise to predictable types of ecosystems
The temperature of a body determines wavelengths of energy emitted
Solar radiation has high energy (shortwave) that readily penetrates the atmosphere
Earth emits low-energy (longwave) radiation that is absorbed by different gases in the atmosphere
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