Climate change

Climate system (L. Řezníčková)


Lecture structure

1. What is the climate system?

  • Components of the climate system
  • Positive and negative climate feedback

2. Natural causes of climate change

  • Fluctuations in solar radiation, orbital changes
  • Distribution of continents and oceans, volcanic eruptions, vegetation
  • The atmosphere and ocean relationship
  • Changes in the composition of the Earth's atmosphere

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01 Climate system
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Supplementary reading



Further interesting and supplementary links


Earth´s energy budget (picture)

Global atmospheric circulations

Milankovitch (orbital) cycles and their role in Earth's climate (animations)

The water cycle (picture)


Video materials


Global Atmospheric Circulation

 

Climate zones


Evolution of the Earth´s atmosphere






Seminar

ENSO (El Niño–Southern Oscillation)


Using recommended sources, study basic information about the phenomenon called ENSO (where and why it occurs, processes in the ocean and the atmosphere, normal patterns, El Niño, La Niña, regional and global effects on weather/climate).


Hess, D. (2014): McKnight's physical geography: a landscape appreciation. 11th ed. Harlow: Pearson. Pearson new international edition. ISBN 978-1-292-02091-4, 143-148.

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