GPHY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: John Wiley & Sons, Solar Irradiance, Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 102
• Professor: Dr.Trezino

Document Summary

Science and systems of the human environment, 5th. Edition, john wiley & sons, chapter 8 (pp. Factors affecting annual cycle of air temperature: latitude (related to insolation received) (cid:149) affects annual average and range, coastal-continental location (cid:149) affects range/variation. Temperature and precipitation (cid:149) in turn, temperature affects precipitation by influencing moisture capacity. Warm air holds more moisture than cold air (i. e. , higher potential specific humidity). Precipitation tends to be greater during the warmer months. Global precipitation regions: wet equatorial, trade wind coasts, tropical deserts, midlatitude deserts and steppes, moist subtropical, midlatitude west coasts, arctic and polar. Either abundant (singapore) or scarce (algeria: precipitation maximum during the warmest period of the year. Summer maximum (bangladesh, nigeria: precipitation maximum during the coolest period of the year. Global climates: low latitude climates, mid latiltude climates, high latitude climates. 5 major divisions based on broad-scale temperature and precipitation. Tropical, dry, warm, snow, polar/ice (fig 8a. 1)