EVSC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hydrosphere

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Environmental Science
• Course: EVSC 100
• Professor: Christie Spry

Document Summary

Hydrosphere: water, water occurs on earth in all of its natural stages liquid, solid, and gas, ice floats on liquid water, water is a strong solvent and has the ability to dissolve most other chemical compounds to some degree, visible light can penetrate water to depths up to 200 m before being absorbed, water has the capacity to store large quantities of hear with relatively little increase in temperature, water reservoirs, the oceans 97. 4, glaciers 2. 3% mostly in antarctica, greenland, groundwater 0. 32% shallow or deep, surface waters 0. 002% lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, atmospheric water 0. 001% clouds, humidity, hydrologic cycle, fluxes, flux: movement of mass or energy between compartments of a material or energy cycle. Dust bowl 1930"s, california 2014: increased demand on groundwater, palmer drought severity index, ocean circulation, thermohaline circulation: temperature and salinity (density, the ocean conveyer belt distributes heat and nutrients, water as a resource, surface water uses.