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Geography ReviewExam I
http://www.msubillings.edu/sciencefaculty/Spring%202010%20handouts.htm
Test bank of questions at:
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The Earth is a
sphere
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Earth
The Shape of the Earth
the Earth’s shape is very close to spherical (oblate ellipsoid or spheroid (flattened at the poles)
Dpolar = 7900 miles
= 12,714 km
Dequator = 7926 miles
= 12,756 km
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b) Longitude (Meridians)
1 degree of longitude = 111 km
at the equator and 0 at the poles
The Geographic Grid
a) Latitude (Parallels)
1 degree latitude = a constant 111 km
Figure 1.3, p. 28
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sun is not in the middle of the plane of the ecliptic
SUNE E
variation in distance of ~ 3%
Aphelion - the Earth
furthest away from Sun
(July 4)
Perihelion - the Earth
closest to Sun
(January 3)
Earth’s Revolution around the Sun
152 million km 147 million km
When are we closest to the Sun?
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the Earth rotates about its axis from west to east once
every 23 hours and 56 minutes
the Earth’s axis always points the same way as it
revolves around the sun
Earth’s Revolution around the Sun
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Earth’s Revolution around the Sun
at equinox, the
circle of
illumination
passes through
both poles
the subsolar
point is the
equator
each location on
Earth
experiences 12
hours of sunlight
and 12 hours of
darkness
Figure 1.18, p. 41
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Earth’s Revolution around the Sun
Solstice (“sun stands still”)
On June 22, the subsolar point is 23½°N (Tropic of Cancer)
On Dec. 22, the subsolar point is 23½°S (Tropic of Capricorn)
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Map ProjectionsPolar Projection
centered on north or
south pole
meridians are
radiating straight lines
parallels are
concentric circles
spacing of parallels
(scale fraction)
increases outward
from the pole
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Map ProjectionsMercator Projection
rectangular grid of
meridians (straight
vertical lines) and
parallels (straight
horizontal lines)
meridians are evenly
spaced, spacing of
parallels increases with
latitude
Used to show surface
flows, e.g. weather,
oceans
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Map ProjectionsGoode Projection
indicates the true sizes of the Earth’s surface but distorts the shapes of areas
Used to show land features
Figure 1.10, p.32
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the Earth rotates 15° per hour so time zones differ by 1 hour (360°/15° = 24 hours)
Global Time Zones
How many degrees does the Earth rotate in an hour?
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The Atmosphere
and the Global Radiation Budget
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Atmospheric Pressure and Density
• Gravity holds most of the air close to the ground
• The weight of the overlying air is the pressure at any point
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Constant gases in the Troposphere
Nitrogen 78% (converted by bacteria into a useful form in soils)
Oxygen 21% (produced by green plants in photosynthesis and used in respiration)
Argon ~1% (inert)
Composition of the Atmosphere
Figure 2.12, p. 62
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The atmosphereis layered accordingto its temperaturestructure
In some layersthe temperatureincreases with height
In others it decreaseswith height or is constant
Why?“pause” is a level; “sphere” is a layer
Heated by the ground
Heated by ozone absorption of UV
Heated by collisions of cosmic rays
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Electromagnetic Radiation
- Everything above -273˚C (absolute zero, 0 Kelvin) emits radiation
- Hotter objects emit more energy at shorter wavelengths
- Colder objects emit more energy at longer wavelengths
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What happens to the Sun’s radiation as it travels through the
atmosphere?
It can be reflected
It can be scattered
It can be absorbed
It can be transmittedGlass of water and laser
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Earth's Energy Balance
Earth's annual energy balance between solar insolation and terrestrial infrared radiation
A global balance is maintained by transferring excess heat from the equatorial region toward the poles
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Heat is transported to the Polar regions
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Planetary Energy Balance
Energy In = Energy Out2 2 4(1 ) 4S R R T
o18 CT
But the observed Ts is about +15° C
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Greenhouse Effect
Increasing Greenhouse Gases increases the amount of heat absorbed by the atmosphere and re-radiated back (counter-
radiation) to the Earth’ surface.
The Earth is 33°C (~60°F) warmer as a result.
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Greenhouse gas concentrations
• Human activities have caused dramatic increases in greenhouse gas concentrations
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Winds and Global
Circulation
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Winds and Global Circulation
• Atmospheric Pressure
• Winds
• Global Wind and Pressure Patterns
• Oceans and Ocean Currents
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How is Energy Transportedto its “escape zones?”
• Both atmospheric and ocean transport are crucial
• Buoyancy-driven convection drives vertical transport
• Latent heat is at least as important as sensible heat
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Atmospheric Circulationin a nutshell
• Hot air rises (rains a lot) in the tropics
• Air cools and sinks in the subtropics (deserts)
• Three „convective‟ cells develop in each Hemisphere
• Coriolis causes direction of prevailing surface winds
• Poleward-flow is deflected by the Coriolis force into westerly jet streams in the temperate zone
• Jet streams are unstable to small perturbations, leading to huge eddies (storms and fronts) that finish the job
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Atmospheric Circulationin a nutshell
• Winds are initially generated by differences in heating at the Earth‟s surface
• Geostrophic winds result in rotational movement around high and low pressure centers.
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How winds are made
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Two columns of air–same temperature
same distribution of mass
1000 mb 1000 mb
500 mb level
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Cool the left column; warm the right column
1000 mb
500 mb
500 mb
1000 mb
The heated columnexpandsThe cooled
column contracts
original 500 mb level
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1003 mb 997 mb
original 500 mb level
Air moves from high to low pressure at the surface…
HighLow
High Low
Air is rising in the column on the right. There is a low pressure center at the surface
Air is sinking in the column on the left. There is a high pressure center at the surface
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Global Circulation
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SUNWarmLow Pressure
ColdHigh Pressure
But heat is transported from the Equator to the Poles -how?
0o
30oN
60oN
30oS
60oS
90oN
90oN
Earth
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How is Energy Transportedto its “escape zones?”
• Both atmospheric and ocean transport are crucial
• Buoyancy-driven convection drives vertical transport
• Latent heat is at least as important as sensible heat
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What a single cell convection model would look like for a non-rotating earth
• Thermal convection leads to formation of convection cell in each hemisphere
• Energy transported from equator toward poles
• What would prevailing wind direction be over N. America with this flow pattern on a rotating earth?
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Coriolis Force acts to the right in the Northern Hemisphere
Physics
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Fig. 7-12, p. 154
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Geostrophic Winds
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low pressure
pressure geostrophic
gradient force winds992
996
1000
1004
1008
1012
1016
1020
high pressure
Coriolis Force
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air descends
High pressure (anticyclone)
From above
H
Side View
surrounding air is relatively low
LHL L
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air ascends
Low pressure (depressions, cyclone)
From above
L
Side View
surrounding air is relatively high
HLH H
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Global Temperature patterns and
weather
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Temperature Patterns
• Stronger seasonal heating and cooling on land produces asymmetry
• Poleward distortion of isotherms over northern high latitude oceans
• Equatorward distortion over subtropics
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Seasonal Migration of ITCZ
• Mean position is somewhat north of Equator• Strong departures from zonal mean position driven
by seasonal heating over land(Especially over Asia, S. America, Africa)
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MonsoonsIn July the position of the ITCZ moves North
• low pressure over land causes winds to flow off the ocean• this brings heavy rainfall
Figure 5.20, p. 167
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Monsoons
In January high pressure over the land produces dry winds
Air is flowing towards the ITCZ
Figure 5.20, p. 167
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Jet Streams• Fast air currents, 1000‟s
of km‟s long, a few hundred km wide, a few km thick
• Typically find two jet streams (subtropical and polar front) at tropopause in NH
• When would you expect the jets to be strongest?
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Smooth westward flow of upper air
westerlies
Develop at the polar front, and form
convoluted waves eventually pinch off
Primary mechanism for poleward heat
transfere
Pools of cool air create areas of low
pressure
Rossby Waves
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Ocean Circulationin a nutshell
• Surface winds cause large, clockwise rotating gyres in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise gyres in the southern hemisphere
• Salinity and temperature differences in water cause sinking of water (deep water formation) in the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean (Antarctic)
• EL Nino is a quasi periodic rocking of the Ocean-Atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific
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Ocean surface currents
• large continuously moving loops (gyres)
• produced by winds, Coriolis force and land masses
Figure 5.32, p. 175
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The Ocean Deep Currents
Deep-sea currents
• driven by differences in temperature and salinity
• much bigger and slower than surface currents
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Global Temperatures
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Main Points
1.We measure air temperature in Celsius and/or Fahrenheit
2.Surface temperature changes as a result of changes in NET energy flows resulting from seasonal and daily changes in insolation and radiation from the surface
3.Air temperature is a function of Insolation, Latitude, Surface Characteristics, nearness to water bodies and elevation
4.Cities can produce heat islands
5.The atmosphere is divided into discrete layers based on temperature differences and patterns
6.The Environmental Lapse Rate is the „normal‟ change in temperature with elevation
7.Land areas are colder in the winter and hotter in the summer than adjacent areas of water
8.At present global temperatures are rising due to increased Greenhouse gases
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Temperature Lags
Earth's surface temperature is a balance between incoming solar radiation and outgoing terrestrial radiation.
Peak temperature lags after peak insolation because surface continues to warm until infrared radiation exceeds insolation.
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the heat island tends to persist over night
parks can reduce the heating
desert urban areas often do not exhibit heat islands
since irrigated vegetation may make the city cooler
Air Temperature – The Urban Heat Island
Figure 3.6, p. 94
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Temperature Structure of the Atmosphere
Figure 3.9, p. 97
Stratosphere is
bounded by the
stratopause
immediately above
is the mesosphere
where
temperatures
decrease with
altitude (bounded
by the mesopause
above)
immediately above
is the
thermosphere
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Temperature Structure of the Lower
Atmosphere
The troposphere is the lower most atmospheric
layer
temperature
decreases on
average by
6.4˚C per 1000
meters (3.5˚F
per 1000 feet) in
the troposphere
(environmental
lapse rate)
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Conduction (direct heat transfer from the heated ground surface to the atmosphere)
Convection (heat transfer by warm air moving to colder upper atmosphere) >> vertical motion: warm air rising and cold air sinking
Advection (heat transfer by warm air mixing with colder adjacent air) >> Horizontal winds
Heat Transfer in the Atmosphere
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July IsothermsSouthern
hemisphere has fewer
land masses and ocean currents
that encircle the globe, creating
isotherms that are
more regular than those in the northern hemisphere.
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Main topics for today
• The Hydrosphere and the Water Cycle
•Water’s properties are due to its polar nature
•Water has a very high heat capacity and high heat of fusion
• Warm air can contain more water vapor than cold air
• Relative Humidity and Dew Point Temperature are the most
common ways to express how much water is in the air
•The Environmental Lapse rate is the observed change in air
temperature with change in elevation
• An Adiabatic Process is the expansion or contraction of an air
mass without heat loss or gain
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Main points for today (cont)
• Clouds are classified by altitude and shape
• Precipitation can occur because of
•1) convection,
•2) orographic lifting, and/or
•3) frontal processes
• Air Quality
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The Water/Hydrologic Cycle
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Energy associated with phase change
80 calories 100 calories 540 calories!
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Basic Humidity Facts
• Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the
atmosphere
• Warm air can hold much more than cold air
• Cold dry air can have close to 0%
• Warm tropical air may have 4-5%
• Several ways to describe humidity (Dew Point and
relative humidity are most common)
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Relative Humidity
• a measure of the amount of water vapor
present in air relative to the maximum amount
that the air can hold at a given temperature (%)
• e.g. if relative humidity is 50%, then it contains
1/2 the amount of water vapor it could hold at a
given temperature
• relative humidity decreases as temperature
increases (assuming no water vapor is added)
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Relative Humidity and Temperature
The diurnal cycle
if no water vapor is added or removed from the air mass,
then Relative Humidity
decreases as Temperature
increases
The diurnal cycle is the inverse of Temperature
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Vertical Motion and Temperature
Rising air expands, using energy to push outward against its
environment, adiabatically cooling
the air
A parcel of air may be forced to rise
or sink, and change temperature relative to
environmental air
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Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate
Dry Adiabatic
Lapse Rate
(DALR)
- decrease in
temperature
with altitude:
10˚C/1000m
Figure 4.10, p. 127
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Wet Adiabatic Lapse Rate
as a parcel of air rises, it cools and becomes saturated at the dew point
dew point lapse rate (1.8 degrees per 1000 meters) means that the dew point of the air parcel decreases as the air rises
when it reaches its dew point, condensation occurs (lifting condensation level)
Figure 4.10, p. 127
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Conditionally unstable air
• What if the environmental lapse rate falls between the moist and dry adiabatic lapse rates?– The atmosphere is
unstable for saturated air parcels but stable for unsaturated air parcels
– This situation is termed conditionally unstable
• This is the typical situation in the atmosphere
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Precipitation: three
mechanisms
Convection
Orographic
Frontal (cyclonic)
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where air masses with different temperatures come together
warm air lifted by cold dense air along a weather front
leads to frontal precipitation
3.) Frontal (cyclonic) precipitation
Cold air Warm air
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Air Quality
Air pollutants are undesirable gases, aerosols, and particulates injected into the atmosphere by human and natural causes
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Weather
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Major points for today
1. Most weather in the continental US results from interactions between large air masses coming from the tropics and the polar regions.
2. Cold and Warm Fronts are masses of cold and warm air, respectively.
3. Cold fronts are quickly moving masses of cold air that thrust moisture-laden warm air up to form storm clouds
4. Warm fronts are more slowly moving fronts in which warm air slides up over more dense cold air.
5. Mid latitude cyclones are common in North America and result from a breakout of cold air in the far north
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Major points for today (cont)
6.Thunderstorms are caused by rapid uplift of moist air in an unstable atmosphere. They are characterized by strong updrafts and downdrafts.
7.Tropical storms, hurricanes, etc., start as low pressure troughs in easterly trade winds. If conditions are right, they can intensify into massive storms
8.In the big picture, horizontal winds are all about transferring heat from the equator to the poles; whereas severe storms are all about vertical motion of the atmosphere.
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Air Masses
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Cold and Warm Fronts
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Fronts
Warm Front
Cold Front
Stationary Front
Occluded Front
A Front - is the boundary between air masses; normally
refers to where this interface intersects theground (in all cases except stationary fronts, thesymbols are placed pointing to the direction ofmovement of the interface (front)
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Air Mass Fronts
Two air masses entering a region, such as the U.S. middle latitudes,
have a front, or transition zone, between the strong temperature
and humidity differences.
Four different fronts are used on weather maps.
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Typical Warm Front Structure
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Cirrostratus
Cirrostratus with Halo
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Altostratus
Alto Stratus Castellanus
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Midlatitude Cyclones
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Large-Scale Setting
Hemispheric westerlies typically organized into 4-6 “long waves”
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Green shading indicates precipitation
Takes several days to a week, and moves 1000‟s of km during lifecycle
Stationary frontIncipient cyclone Open wave
Mature stage occlusion dissipating
Lifecycle of a Midlatitude Cyclone
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Weather Changes Associated with Wave Cyclones
Figure 6.10, p. 193
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Cyclone Tracks• Wave cyclones tend to form in certain areas and travel common paths
• Mid-latitude wave cyclones tend to travel eastward
• Tropical cyclones tend to move westward
Figure 6.11, p. 194
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Severe Weather
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Tropical Cyclones
hurricanes (western hemisphere) and typhoons (western
Pacific in Asia) and cyclone in Indian Ocean
develop over warm ocean surfaces between 8° and 15°
latitude, migrate westward and curve toward the poles
Tropical cyclones often create tremendous damage due to
high winds, high waves, flooding (storm surges) and heavy
rains
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Easterly Waves
A simple form of tropical weather system is a slow moving trough of low pressure within the tropical easterly wind belts (trades)
Figure 6.16, p. 197
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The Atmospheric Circulation