GPHY 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Radiant Intensity, Solar Irradiance, Thermosphere

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 102
• Professor: Paul M Treitz

Document Summary

Laitude: insolaion varies with diferent laitudes higher = more variance. Surface type: diferent surfaces retain diferent amounts of heat waves. Proximity to water: water modiies the land temperature. Elevaion: higher you go the less atmosphere = less greenhouse gases. Heaing the ground transfer the heat to air and coninues to rise even ater peak at noon. At sunset temperature falls and coninues to drop unil 30 mins ater sunrise. An increase in alitude causes the air to get colder, warmer, colder, then warmer. Mesosphere get colder as alitude goes up. As elevaion increases temperature decreases (contained in the troposphere) Thermosphere the molecules move rapidly that the air heats. Air is less dense so it does not hold a lot of heat. Daily seasonal temperatures vary more in coninental then mariime locaions due to land-water diferences. Temperature decreases from the equator to the poles. Heat absorbed and held in storage during the changing of state process.