ENVS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hadley Cell, Temperate Climate, Solar System
27 Nov 2013
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Climate is defined as the average weather pattern over a long period of time at a particular location, normally in terms of temperature and precipitation. Weather is not the climate, climate is long term trends. There are two fundamental abiotic reasons why: the earth is round (non-equal distribution, tilted on its axis (unequal amounts of sunlight) Cycle that creates heavy rainfall near equator, and the leftover cool air at sucks up all moisture at 30 degrees. Polar cell 60 degree/cool dry air sent over the artic (cycle) The polar cell and hadley cell interact and create what is known as the temperate zone (ferrel cell) (30-60 degrees = creates our temperate environment) Coriolis force: objects/winds deflect to the right in northern hemisphere and to the left in southern hemisphere. World biomes are affected by participation and temperature: soils. Both alive and inert, soil chemistry drives activity. Each subsequent level of soil is called a horizon.
