GGR112H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Geographic Information System, Mount Pinatubo, Keeling Curve
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Ggr112 lecture 2: essentials of physical geography. Topics: the science of geography, earth system concepts, location and time on earth, maps, scales and projections, remote sensing and gis. Geography (geo = earth) (graphein = to write: what kind of science is geography, geography is an empirical (i. e. observational) science, conversely, physics and chemistry are experimental and/or theoretical sciences. In physical geography nature performs the experiments under consideration. Impossible to control a volcano, when it erupts, and how much ash it ejects into the atmosphere. Mount pinatubo, philippines june 15, 1991: cumulus clouds puffy clouds, the eruption affected the ea(cid:396)th(cid:859)s at(cid:373)osphe(cid:396)e syste(cid:373) o(cid:374) a glo(cid:271)al s(cid:272)ale, 13-18 million tonnes of ash and sulfuric acid is blasted into the atmosphere. The (cid:858)keeling(cid:859) cu ve: named after charles keeling (1928-2005, a conceptual model of knowledge creation based on the geography method, igo(cid:396)ously tested theo(cid:396)ies (cid:373)ay (cid:271)e ele(cid:448)ated to the status of a (cid:858)ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)al theo(cid:396)y(cid:859) o(cid:396) (cid:858)go(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:374)i(cid:374)g la(cid:449)(cid:859) e. g. gravity.
