EAPS 10200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Evaporation, Antarctic Circle, Cryosphere

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Earth Atmos Planetary Sci
• Course: EAPS 10200
• Professor: Professor Balloti

Document Summary

World climates: recall at the beginning of this course that the four spheres were introduced. Now a fifth one can be added, the cryosphere, or ice and snow. As discussed earlier any changes in any one of the spheres causes changes in all the others. Climate is the result of exchanges of energy and moisture that occur between the five spheres: think about the rock cycle or the water cycle. How does the climate change when one of those cycles changes: climate is the connection between all of the other spheres for obvious reasons. Climate classification: the ancient greeks may have been the first to try to classify a climate system. Koppen classification: although there are other classifications the koppen classification is the most widely used. Named after russian born german climatologist wladimir koppen first published in 1884 and revised in 1918 and 1936 by koppen himself it divided the climate into five groups.