ILST 2655 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tropical Rainforest, Westerlies, Equinox

• School: York University
• Department: International Studies
• Course: ILST 2655
• Professor: Stanislav Kirschbaum

Document Summary

Geography: earth (lecture + added research, wk 3) 1)earth, rotaion, environmental efects, geographic grid, meridians, parallels, global ime: earth"s revoluion, solsice, equinox, tropics, troposphere, insolaion, ilt, relecion, reradiaion, lapse rate, air pressure, convecion, precipitaion, coriolis efect, jet streams, climate regions. Earth is not spherical, it is oblate ellipsoid (laten at poles) 1 rotaion= 1 solar day: rotaion determines ime & locaion, rotaion means rotaion on axis, rotate from west to east(eastward direcion). A. k. a from looking down at north pole, it"s counterclockwise. Important for 3 reasons: reference in seing up laitude and longitude, measure of passage of ime, efects on physical and life processes on earth. 1)daily rhythm day & night: diurnal rhythm(means happening in the day,daily): air temperature, humidity, solar energy(daylight) for plant, air moion. 2)flow paths: air and water: airway and water way, coriolis efect- flows in northern hemisphere- lows toward right. Flows in southern hemisphere- lows toward let **remember the thumbs up/down trick** .