GLY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Wind Speed, Climatology

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Geology
• Course: GLY 102
• Professor: Kristin Poinar

Document Summary

Climate change: average over a long time 30yrs or more. May be an increase, decrease, or new spatial pattern. Shifting the probability distribution of weather events. Climatology includes weather warmer and colder than normal. Decadal averages cannot always tell that the climate is changing. What affects air temperature: amount of sunlight received, altitude (cooler at higher elevations, the earth system. Wind speed is stronger over ocean than land because less friction. Deserts are an exception, have no obstacles, strong wind.