Climate Change Glossary

Revision as of 11:16, 15 June 2011

	Category	Description
Today's Featured Article3/2011	Featured Article Climate Change
Science of Climate Change	Climate Change
SRES	Climate Terms Climate Change
Roughness length	Climate Change Terms Climate Change
Regional Climate Modelling	Climate Change
Projections of Future Changes in Climate	Climate Change
Positive feedback	Climate Change Terms Climate Change	When a change in a variable occurs in a system which exhibits positive feedback, the system responds by changing that variable even more in the same direction
Planetary albedo	Climate Change Terms Climate Change
North atlantic ossilation	Climate Change Terms Climate Change
Medieval Warm Period	Climate Change Terms Climate Change
Little Ice Age	Climate Change Terms Climate Change
Latent heat flux	Climate Change Terms Climate Change
Impacts of Climate Change	Climate Change
IPCC	Climate Change Terms Climate Change
Hydrosphere	Climate Change Terms Climate Change	A hydrosphere in physical geography describes the combined mass of water found on, under, and over the surface of a planet.
Hydrological cycle	Climate Change Terms Climate Change
Holocene Period	Climate Change Terms Climate Change
Geosphere	Climate Change Terms Climate Change	is often used to refer to the densest parts of Earth, which consist mostly of rock and regolith. The geosphere consists of the inside of the Earth or other planets or bodies
Educational Portal	Climate Change Greek Mythology Architecture Education
Downscaling	Climate Change Terms Climate Change
Cryosphere	Climate Change Terms Climate Change	The cryosphere is the term which collectively describes the portions of the Earth’s surface where water is in solid form, including sea ice, lake ice, river ice, snow cover, glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets, and frozen ground (which includes permafrost). Thus there is a wide overlap with the hydrosphere
Climate up to Present Day	Climate Change
Climate forcings	Climate Change Terms Climate Change
Climate Variability	Climate Change
Climate Models	Climate Change
Climate Change and its Drivers	Climate Change
Climate Change Glossary	Climate Change
Carbon sink	Climate Change Terms Climate Change
Carbon Dioxide	Climate Change Terms Climate Change	A Chemical that is formed by the fusion of Oxygen and Carbon molecules that help trap heat in the atmosphere and is known as Greehouse Gas
Biosphere	Climate Change Terms Climate Change	is the global sum of all ecosystems. A closed (apart from solar and cosmic radiation) and self-regulating system From the broadest point of view, the biosphere is the global ecological system integrating all living beings and their relationships, including their interaction with the elements of the lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere.
Atmospheric window	Climate Change Terms Climate Change
Anthropogenic	Climate Change Terms Climate Change	Climate activity induced by human activity such as the burning of fossil fuels that increase the emissions of Carbon Dioxide
An Introduction to the Science of Climate Change	Climate Change
Aleatoric	Climate Change Terms Climate Change	The incorporation of chance into the process of creation. The word derives from the Latin word alea, the rolling of dice.

Anthropogenic Climate Change - Changes to the climate caused by human influence. Such as burning fossil fuels causing emissions of Carbon Dioxide

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Climate Change Glossary

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