ATOC 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Glaciology, World Meteorological Organization, Smog
7 Jun 2018
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ATOC 181-LESSON 1
- Textbook: Meteorology Today by Donald Ahrens et al., Nelson, 2nd Canadian Ed
- Multiple choices
Atmosphere: envelope of gases surrounding the Earth and another planet
Science: Process of asking questions about the observable world and then testing the answers to
those questions
- External world not internal conviction is the testing of scientific beliefs
Importance of the atmosphere
- We are always affected by the atmosphere, we breathe
- Many natural disasters are related to catastrophic atmospheric events
- Concern that our climate is changing
- Only a few so-called scientists are still not convinced that mankind is responsible for
global warming and the resulting impacts
Atmospheric Sciences
- study of the atmosphere, processes, interaction with other systems (e.g sun).
- Atmospheric physics, dynamics and chemistry. Climatology
- 2 major disciplines: climatology and meteorology
We get more heat from the earth surface than from the sun in average
Meteorology: state of the atmosphere at a given time and location
- day to day chage i easure like T, air P, id cloudiess, raifall ad sushie…
- rapid, sometimes unpredictable changes
- climate varies more slowly
- Variability also to be considered in climate studies (Daily and seasonal extremes)
- science that deals with the atmosphere and its phenomena and especially with weather
and weather forecasting
- the atmospheric phenomena and weather of a region
- not limited to weather forecasting
o physical meteorology/atmospheric physics: Concerned with
▪ atmospheric structure and composition
▪ transfer of electromagnetic radiation and acoustic waves through the
atmosphere
▪ physical process involved in the formation of clouds and precipitation
▪ Atmospheric electricity
▪ A wide range of other problems closely related to physics and chemistry
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Document Summary
Textbook: meteorology today by donald ahrens et al. , nelson, 2nd canadian ed. Atmosphere: envelope of gases surrounding the earth and another planet. Science: process of asking questions about the observable world and then testing the answers to those questions. External world not internal conviction is the testing of scientific beliefs. We are always affected by the atmosphere, we breathe. Many natural disasters are related to catastrophic atmospheric events. Only a few so-called scientists are still not convinced that mankind is responsible for global warming and the resulting impacts. Atmospheric sciences study of the atmosphere, processes, interaction with other systems (e. g sun). We get more heat from the earth surface than from the sun in average. Meteorology: state of the atmosphere at a given time and location rapid, sometimes unpredictable changes climate varies more slowly. Day to day cha(cid:374)ge i(cid:374) (cid:373)easure like t, air p, (cid:449)i(cid:374)d cloudi(cid:374)ess, rai(cid:374)fall a(cid:374)d su(cid:374)shi(cid:374)e .
