EVSC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Arctic Ocean, Greenhouse Effect, Background Radiation

• School: University of Virginia
• Department: Environmental Sciences
• Course: EVSC 1010
• Professor: Thomas Smith

Document Summary

Changes in global average land ocean surface temperature over the past century (since. 1880) general trend of the planet warming mean temperature has increased over time. Trends in extreme temperatures over the past 50 years each of the last three decades has been successively warmer at the earth"s surface than any preceding decade since 1850 . Quebec in ne canada and the very southern tip of argentina. 90% of the energy accumulated between 1971 and 2010, and it likely warmed between the 1870s and 1971. Trends in global average precipitation over the past century in mid-latitude land areas of the north hemisphere precipitation has increased since 1901 for other latitudes area- averaged long-term positive or negative trends have low confidence. Climate change and extreme weather events hurricanes the destructive power of cyclones has increased around 70% in both the atlantic and pacific oceans the percentage of hurricanes classified as category 4 or 5 has increased over the same period.