Chapter 4 Weather Climate Defining weather climate Controls
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Chapter 4: Weather & Climate • Defining weather & climate • Controls of weather & climate – – – Solar energy/latitude Land water distribution Landform barriers Atmospheric pressure Wind systems Elevation • California’s Seasonal Changes • California’s Climate Zones • Climographs
Distribution of solar energy annually
The differential heating of land water
• Landform barriers and weather; orographic precipitation
• Pressure and stability/instability
• Global pressure and wind system
• Upper Level Inversion
What is Smog? • Ozone (O 3) - invisible, irritates, impairs breathing • Nitrogen Dioxide (NO 2) - brown, impairs breathing • Carbon Monoxide (CO) - invisible, reduces bloods oxygen • Particulate Matter under 10 microns (PM 10) - invades deep into lungs, reduces visibility
Ozone Formation • product of solar energy and photochemical reactions. • highest concentrations occur when sunlight is most intense. • reaches peak levels during the middle of the day in the summer months. • these types of air pollution patterns are called diurnal and seasonal variations
Ozone • one of the most important air pollutants affecting human health. • Ozone (O 3) is a molecule built of three atoms of oxygen linked together in a very energetic combination. • comes into contact with a surface it rapidly releases this extra force in the form of chemical energy. • When this happens in biological systems, respiratory tract, can cause damage to sensitive tissues.
AQI 0 -50 51 -100 101 -150 151 -200 200+ Good Moderate Unhealthy for sensitive groups Unhealthy Very Unhealthy
• California Summer – East Pacific (Hawaiian) High – California Current, Advection Fog – Catalina Eddy – Summer Storms
• California Autumn – Weakening of Pacific High – Interior Cooling – Winds
• California Winter – Aleutian Low, Mid-Latitude Cyclones – Variability – Radiation Fog
• California Spring – Interior heating – Pacific High strengthening
• • • BSh—semi-arid, hot summer Csa—Mediterranean, hot summer BWh—arid, hot summer Csb—Mediterranean, mild summer Csbn—Mediterranean, cool summer w/fog
• World’s Mediterranean Climates
• World’s Deserts
- Defining non defining clauses
- Relative clauses defining and non defining
- Oraciones defining y non defining
- Defining and non defining relative clauses in telugu
- Non-defining relative clauses cümleleri
- Defining and non defining relative clauses
- General controls vs application controls
- He who controls the past controls the future
- World geography chapter 3 weather and climate
- Climate change 2014 mitigation of climate change
- Sbu m-form structure
- Clim 101
- How do prevailing winds affect climate
- Cimates
- Conclusion of weather and climate
- Climate zones and weather worksheet answer key
- Whats the difference between weather and climate
- Objectives of weather and climate
- Factors affecting climate
- Weathr for tomorrow
- Tropical climate
- Brainpop humidity
- Weather and climate jeopardy
- Weather and climate interactive activities
- Tools used to measure weather
- Idioms about weather and climate
- Poems about seasons changing
- Weather climate toolkit
- Bill nye weather and climate worksheet