ENV200H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Atmospheric Circulation, Earth Science, Photosynthesis
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Solutions to environmental problems are found in an understanding of systems and their rates of change. Systems and the scales on which they operate is the earth science paradigm: systems are parts of the universe that can be isolated for study, systems are sets of parts that work together (or can be connected) Systems: planets environment consists of complex network of interlinked systems (ecological webs, interation of living species,etc), network of relationships among parts that interact and influence one another (feedback. January 23, 2018 loops : example: global hydrologic system. Regular paterns in nature: cyclic (circulate and be at steady state, hierarchical, absent human interferance, they balance(but with regional/local disparities in time space) January 23, 2018 if arrow out is bigger, box shrinks. Residence time tells how long a particular element will remain in a pool (this is how we know how long it would take the atmosphere to return to normal if we stopped loading it in)
