1st Edition
ATMO 336: Weather, Climate and Society
School: University of Arizona (UA )
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Pages: 4Reconstruction of past climates, the climate of the Pleistocene
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Pages: 2discussing the basics of global warming by defining the differences between weather and climate and patterns in global cycles i the past
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Pages: 4introduces stratospheric ozone and other types of ozone to atmospheric conditions (ozone hole) as well as its effects in the differences in UV radiation and its effects
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Pages: 2cycles of atlantic hurricanes, global warming evidence, and the death/ destruction as a result of its occurrences
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Pages: 3defining the tornado, how its formed in specific conditions, and how to rank a tornado
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Pages: 4going furtther in depth of the development of severe and non severe storms
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Pages: 3describing the conditions necessary for thunderstorms to occur, as well as describing unstable and stable conditions
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Pages: 5discuses the reason for why rising air cools, conditions under which air is forced to rise, specific types of precipitation, and moving air parcels up and down through the atmosphere
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Pages: 4the bodies biological control systems in response to surrounding temperature, as well as the relation between cloud formation and parcels of air.
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Pages: 3summary of key points in relative humidity, as well as going over key ideas pertaining to energy transfer (conduction, convection, and radiation)
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Pages: 3relative humidity and dew point in relation to the evaporation and condensation in our atmosphere
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Pages: 3describing the relevance and differences between specific types of forests that are examined around the world
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Pages: 3describing the important phase changes in water while also briefly introducing the general water cycle
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Pages: 5more emphasis on wind directions and warm/cold fronts in relation to the earth's rotation causing cyclogenesis
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Pages: 3analyzing pressure gradients and their effecs on the horizontal despertion of air in the atmosphere, also called wind, while also analyzing skew-t diagrams
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Pages: 3defining the layers of the atmosphere with emphasis on density and especially air pressure differences that are distributed throughout the atmosphere
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Pages: 6emphasizes on the pressure properties within the atmosphere, as well as the composition of specific gases and their role in our environment.
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Pages: 2focus on numerical models and future predictions of weather forecasting