MONITORING EARTH’S CLIMATE SYSTEM & PLANETARY ENERGY BUDGET.

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MONITORING EARTH’S CLIMATE SYSTEM & PLANETARY ENERGY BUDGET

Spatial and Temporal Scales of Climate Climate Anomalies Climate Observations In Situ Remote Sensing Satellite Observations Climate Models Radiation Laws Solar Radiation-sun-Earth relationships Atmospheric Effects on Insolation Ozone Depletion Greenhouse Effect Net Radiation, Equilibrium, Climate Change

Anomaly: deviation from the mean

VISIBLE IMAGE APRIL 12, 2010

INFRARED IMAGE APRIL 12, 2010

WATER VAPOR IMAGE 4/12/10

NASA’s Suite of Orbiting Earth Observing Satellites

CLIMATE FORECASTING

The Electromagnetic Spectrum Figure 2.6

Solar and Terrestrial Energy Figure 2.7 Wien’s Law Stefan- Boltzmann Law

Equinox, Solstices

Seasonal Observations Figure 2.15

Daylength vs. Latitude

SOLAR CONSTANT The rate at which solar radiation falls on a flat unit area perpendicular to the sun’s rays at the top of the atmosphere cal/cm 2 /min 1368 W/m 2

ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS ON SOLAR RADIATION, TERRESTRIAL RADIATION

REFLECTION SCATTERING ABSORPTION

Albedo and Reflection Figure 3.5

Antarctic Ozone Hole Figure FS 2.1.1

Greenhouse effect

Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide Measurements (the Keeling Curve)

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