Climate Verses Weather

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Climate Verses Weather

• Is there a difference?

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Climate Vs. Weather

• Climate
• Long-term weather patterns of an area
• Weather
• Current state of the troposphere
• Short term variations

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Climatology

• The study of Earths climate and the factors that
  affect past, present, and future climatic changes

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Normals

• Standard values for a location
• Average values over a long period of time

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What Causes Different Climates?

• Topography
• Coastal Regions, areas near water, are warmer in
  the winter and cooler in the summer
• Latitude

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Polar
Temperate
Tropics
Tropics
Temperate
Polar
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Climate Regions

• Tropics
• Most solar radiation, generally warm
• Between Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer
• Temperate
• Between 23.5 and 66.5 North and South
• Mild temperatures
• Polar
• 66.5 North and South to the Poles
• Cold Temperatures

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Koeppen Classification System

• Classified based on temperature and amount of
  precipitation
• Tropical
• Dry
• Mild
• Continental
• Polar

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Climate Change
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Long-Term Climatic Change

• Climates change over extremely long periods of
  time
• Ice Ages Periods of extensive glacial coverage
• Most recent ended
• 10,000 years ago
• Temps dropped 5C

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Short-Term Climatic Change

• Caused by regular variations in daylight, temp,
  and weather patterns
• Examples
• Seasons
• El Nino (Warm ocean current)