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Revision as of 10:30, 15 June 2011
| Term | Description | |
|---|---|---|
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| Science of Climate Change | ||
| SRES | IPCC | |
| Roughness length | ||
| Regional Climate Modelling | Downscaling RCM GCM | |
| Projections of Future Changes in Climate | Anthropogenic SRES | |
| Positive feedback | When a change in a variable occurs in a system which exhibits positive feedback, the system responds by changing that variable even more in the same direction | |
| Planetary albedo | ||
| North atlantic ossilation | ||
| Medieval Warm Period | Little Ice Age | |
| Little Ice Age | Medieval Warm Period | |
| Latent heat flux | ||
| Impacts of Climate Change | Anthropogenic Cryosphere | |
| IPCC | ||
| Hydrosphere | A hydrosphere in physical geography describes the combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet. | |
| Hydrological cycle | ||
| Holocene Period | Pleistocene Interglacial | |
| Geosphere | is often used to refer to the densest parts of Earth, which consist mostly of rock and regolith. The geosphere consists of the inside of the Earth or other planets or bodies | |
| Educational Portal | ||
| Downscaling | ||
| Cryosphere | The cryosphere is the term which collectively describes the portions of the Earth’s surface where water is in solid form, including sea ice, lake ice, river ice, snow cover, glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets, and frozen ground (which includes permafrost). Thus there is a wide overlap with the hydrosphere | |
| Climate up to Present Day | Anthropogenic Climate forcings Holocene Period Gulf Stream Medieval Warm Period Holocene Climatic Optimum Hypsithermal Holocene Megathermal Milankovitch cycles Interglacials Stadial Little Ice Age CH4 | |
| Climate forcings | ||
| Climate Variability | Climate forcings Radiative Forcing Tropopause Albedo | |
| Climate Models | Anthropogenic Climate forcings | |
| Climate Change and its Drivers | Carbon Dioxide Positive feedback Hydrosphere Cryosphere Biosphere Geosphere Carbon sink Climate forcings Hydrological cycle Roughness length Latent heat flux Planetary albedo Atmospheric window | |
| Climate Change Glossary | ||
| Carbon sink | ||
| Carbon Dioxide | A Chemical that is formed by the fusion of Oxygen and Carbon molecules that help trap heat in the atmosphere and is known as Greehouse Gas | |
| Biosphere | is the global sum of all ecosystems. A closed (apart from solar and cosmic radiation) and self-regulating system From the broadest point of view, the biosphere is the global ecological system integrating all living beings and their relationships, including their interaction with the elements of the lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. | |
| Atmospheric window | ||
| Anthropogenic | Climate activity induced by human activity such as the burning of fossil fuels that increase the emissions of Carbon Dioxide | |
| An Introduction to the Science of Climate Change | Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Sulphate Positive feedback Aleatoric Epistemic uncertainty | |
| Aleatoric | The incorporation of chance into the process of creation. The word derives from the Latin word alea, the rolling of dice. |
