The global pattern of atmospheric heating and circulation is the high precipitation in the tropics which is produced by high rates of evaporation and subsequent concentration of water vapor in ascending air masses. Energy from the sun heats up earth but unfortunately it doesn’t distribute it evenly across the surface of the earth. The tropics receive more heat radiation than they produce the arctic or the polar region produce more radiation than they receive. The clouds formed in this way produce the heavy precipitation associated with the tropics. The mechanisms of high precipitation at temperate latitudes is produced when warm, moisture-bearing subtropical air meets cold polar air, which forces condensation of the water vapor in the subtropical air mass. Precipitation is mainly to do with the temperature of the air. Higher the airs temperature the more moisture it can hold, and vice-versa. Since the tropics are warmer the air holds more moisture and won't lose it until it interacts with colder air, which is usually at mountains as cold air is forced up into the hot air by the ...
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The warming of the air brings with it a change in weather patterns across the globe. This change in weather patterns will include an increase in weather extremes such as, storms and drought. The type of extreme depends on a specific region with drought expected to increase in the dry tropics and with the frequency of tropical storms and rainfall expected to increase in the wet tropics.
Ever wonder what the atmosphere consists of? What's it made out of, what type of weather patterns are there, what does a hurricane look like, or other natural phenomenon's of today's weather ? Well America, hopefully now we can! Meteorology is the study of the atmosphere and the effects it has on our weather. Climatology focuses on how atmospheric changes alter the world’s climates, aeronomy is the study of the upper parts of the atmosphere. Meteorology focuses on the lower parts of the atmosphere, primarily the troposphere, where most weather takes place. It has been released that under the supervision of NASA, President Dwight D Eisenhower and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) that they have launched a satellite called TIROS 1 out of Cape Canaveral, Florida that will observe, record, and transmit data back to headquarters. The first ever weather satellite has arrived and with much hope will change weather prediction for the future.
Climate, weather, and meteorology are 3 words that seem to be the same but in reality differ significantly. Two of these concepts pertain to the atmosphere but differ in what time and place they are studied in, and the last one is studying these concepts.
As the warm air mass rises it condenses into a series of clouds. The warm front brings light rain and also light snow. All this is followed by warmer and milder weather.
Rain in reality is moisture condensed from the atmosphere that falls visibly in separate drops. To get rain, the water condensing in the clouds has to become heavy enough to fall to Earth. To become heavier, some will collide with other droplets and become larger, and others will grow as water condenses out the air directly into the droplet, and some will do so by both methods. Eventually, if the droplets keep growing, they will reach a mass where they can't stay floating in the cloud because they are too heavy and will start to fall as rain. Before it can rain, there must be moisture or humidity in the air. In order for there to be moisture in the air, water must evaporate. The best source for the air's moisture is the oceans and sometimes lakes. Air flows over these large bodies of water picking up moisture as it evaporates off the surface. The air then flows over the land and we feel it in the form of humidity. When air rises, such as up a mountain slope, or when encountering a cold front or warm front, the air cools and the moisture condenses into clouds and rain. Because of this, areas
First is a description of the greenhouse effect. The earth’s atmosphere has four layers, or zones, with each having distinct differences in temperature. The troposphere is the first layer surrounding the earth. Within this layer air is continually circulating and moving heat and moisture around the earth. The troposphere is denser than the other layers due to the fact that gravity keeps the majority of air molecules near the earth. This is about 75 percent of all the atmospheric mass. It is also the warmest layer (Cunningham & Cunningham, ...
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The world’s climate is kept stable and suitable to live in, mainly by rainforests, in a number of ways. They are often known as ‘climate controllers’. They keep the planet cool, as they absorb much of the suns heat, instead of reflecting it back into the atmosphere.
Normal weather patterns are when low atmospheric pressure is over northern Australia and Indonesia, and when high atmospheric pressure is over the Pacific Ocean. Winds move east to west over the Pacific. The east flows of the trade winds carries the warm surface waters to the west, and bring rainstorms to Indonesia and northern Australia. To the coast of Ecuador and Peru, warm surface water is pulled west, and the cold water beneath pulls up to replace it. This is called an upwelling.
Climate change is evidenced through shifts in the weather patterns such as winds, humidity and temperatures over certain durations. Natural climate changes occur less frequently and they are triggered by factors related geographical aspects as well as solar radiation. The earth’s movement on the orbit triggers changes in climate causing some areas to have higher temperatures than usual while others are significantly cold depending on the position of the earth on the orbit. The heat form the sun causes changes on the stratospheric ozone and it increases the amount of greenhouse gases. Heat from the oceanic crust also contributes to warming as a result of episodic hydrothermal venting (Liao & Sandeberg, 2012). Volcanic activity also causes a release of certain elements that may block the sun and also contribute to increase greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The atmosphere surrounds the Earth as a thin, about a 100 km thick layer and it consists of 78% N2(Nitrogen), 21% O2(Oxygen), 1% Ar(Argon) and 0.0.39%CO2(Carbon Dioxide). The atmosphere has a number of different layers and each of those layers have different properties. Changes in weather, clouds, rain and wind are formed in the lower atmosphere, 10 to 15 km thick layer known as Troposphere. Although troposphere is deeper in tropical regions, reaching up to 20 km, however in polar regions it can be as shallow as 7km during winter. Troposphere is 90 per cent of the total mass of the atmosphere, and nearly all of the water vapor and this is due to the processes of transpiration and evaporation. As the altitude in the troposphere increases, the temperature decreases by about 6.5 ° C per kilometer increase in altitude. The upper limit of the troposphere is the coldest and it ends at a point called “tropopause”, which is where the upper atmosphere, also known as “stratosphere” begins. The stratosphere, which extends about 50 km from where troposphere ends, is stratified in temperature and lower layers are cooler whilst temperature increases in the layers higher up. The reason why stratosphere is layered in temperature is because ozone (O3) there absorbs Ultraviolet C energy waves and high energy Ultraviolet B from the sun and its broken down in to diatomic oxygen(O2) and atomic oxygen(O). Therefore, The Stratospheric ozone layer protects the plants and animals of carcinogenic and lethal amounts of sun exposure. Although about 10% of the mass of the atmosphere is located in the stratosphere, the air is very thin. The upper region of the atmosphere is known as the Ionosphere and it begins at approximately 85km altitude and stretches ...
Climate change is caused due to the release of few carbon compounds into the atmosphere, which drastically brought the weather changes all over the world. Climate change is not confined to a single region. It has become an important issue all over the world for the past few years.
... water moves around the Earth causing our weather. The average weather in an area during a long period of time is climate.