GEO 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Climate Change Mitigation, Ocean Current, Sitaonair
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Reasons we are interested in atmosphere and ocean circulation: climate change, travel and trade routes, atmosphere is our medium of life and has a chemical impact on us, ocean circulation affects the distribution of life on earth. Donald trump has called climate change a hoax and wants to cut off climate change funding. Distribution of solar radiation: footprint affect. The sun is hottest at the equator because thats where it is hit more directly. Goes through less atmosphere to reach the earth. Effect of temperature on air density: hot air becomes less dense, cold are is more dense, thermal convection cell. The way air flows on earth: coriolis affect. Things spin differently in different hemispheres: northern hemi, things divert to the right, southern hemi, things divert to the left, intertropical convergence zone. Horse latitudes: named this because they went so slow they either ate the horses or threw them overboard, deserts tend to be a little bit south of equator.
