It also has an interesting relationship with ENSO. When they occur together, impacts are magnified but when they are out of phase, it appears effects are effectively mitigated. When the IPO is positive, temperatures are lower in the Pacific tropical and subtropical areas but warmer farther to the north. Also, like the PDO, it can have amplification or mitigation effects in conjunction with ENSO with particular and noteworthy differences to the climate of Australia, New Zealand and the seas around those countries.
The oscillations are just some of the natural forcings on the climate. There are anthropogenic forcings too which are discussed in the next section, but the wind and air interactions are not the only naturally-occurring events. The sun receives a constant stream of energy produced by nuclear processes that generate an immense amount of heat, light, and radiation.
This radiation hits the atmosphere and is absorbed by the ozone layer which reduces the most harmful. The resulting heat and ultraviolet rays that do make it to the surface enable all life on the planet from the plants that use the chemical processes to reproduce through photosynthesis which, in turn, feeds animals.
But the sun's energy is not constant. The temperature and therefore the heat levels fluctuate and that can have a knock-on effect for the Earth.
It seems that the Sun was responsible for two climate events that took place less than 1, years ago: the Little Ice Age and the Medieval Warm Period The decrease in solar temperature certainly contributed to the LIA, but it was by no means the only factor - volcanoes 18 see below for further details also impacted global temperatures - there was a lot of it in the Little Ice Age.
The Medieval Warm Period MWP certainly correlates with an increase in solar activity and a decrease in volcanic activity during the period. As atmospheric particles increase, so does air density. This leads to the greenhouse effect. Less heat is reflected back into space and more is absorbed in the upper atmosphere.
This is what happened on the planet Venus which has dense cloud cover and a runaway Greenhouse Effect Mars atmosphere is too thin; when this happens, too much heat escape, leading to the opposite effect. These are immense seismologica l events that can cause short-term weather effects and, when enough events have accumulated or are particularly large, long-term climate effects.
It is largely believed that the explosion of the Thera Santorini volcano in antiquity led to the collapse of several complex societies 19 , not just the Minoan civilization that inhabited the island at the time, but also deeply affected other powers too and led to the downfall of the Minoan civilization which, just a few years later, was conquered by the Mycenaeans. Writings about the event are found all over the world with some writings from China and physical effects on the climate discovered in North America.
It was five times larger than Krakatoa and no other volcano has come close to matching its power. The turmoil that followed was political but also showed the lack of resources in societies led to their collapse. The Little Ice Age created a brief yet intense change to the northern hemisphere's climate. This was a period of unusually high volcanic activity 18 but evidence on whether this was a cause is still limited and subject to much speculation.
But we do know that volcanic activity has an impact - mostly small, but sometimes when there is a lot together or there is a large enough single event, change occurs. In more recent times, Krakatoa in the East Indies cooled the planet's temperature rise and halted sea level rise for at least two decades, and that was one volcano - albeit an intense one Most of the following issues have impacted the climate since the Industrial Revolution in the 19 th century and arguably started before that.
Greenhouses are glass buildings used to houseplants that require humidity and shelter from the elements. By nature, they are warmer and more humid than a garden. The effect on the global environment is similar.
The greenhouse gases are methane, water vapor, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide Cutting down tree canopies without replacing it passively increases climate change by the simple fact that trees and other vegetation are carbon sinks The fewer sinks we have, the faster carbon emissions will accumulate in the atmosphere and it seems deforestation is increasing despite international efforts to slow it down and replace more trees than we are cutting down.
Some of this carbon is heading for the oceans which is now absorbing much more carbon than it has done for a very long time. This is leading to ocean acidification and coral bleaching which is upsetting the delicate balance of marine ecosystems 16 , reducing ocean life that has come to rely on coral reefs to survive. Two names that come up repeatedly are Aristotle and Theophrastus; the latter was a pupil of the former and made note of some strange climatic phenomena.
Little is achieved over the nearly 2, years with naturalists and others merely making comments and observations. True climatology - and an attempt to divide climate change between the natural and the anthropogenic factors - arises to around the time we began to understand how our mining for resources and increasing carbon emission could alter the planet.
It was during the 19 th century and the rush for paleontological and paleobotanical fossils, a period in which humanity discovered the bones of extinct creatures such as dinosaur bones and megafauna from much more recent times that we began to understand the importance of ecology and geology and impacts on climate These areas are intrinsically linking in many ways.
Particularly, the idea that a climate could change quite dramatically - desert revealed as once being a tropical swamp, the Arctic circle being more like lush tundra than fields of ice, the retreat of sea levels and ice demonstrated quite clearly how the landscape can change dramatically.
Ice Age Theory 23 developed through limited evidence as research headed into the 19 th century and towards the Industrial Revolution. Yet it remained, until the 20 th century, a subdiscipline of meteorology, It was during the height of the Industrial Revolution that chemists identified the greenhouse gases listed above.
Many of these were being pumped out by the thousands of tons each year, with the warming effects of CO 2 emissions identified early on. At the time, it was still linked to studying ancient changes to the planet including Jean-Pierre Perraudin who posited that mountain valleys and the boulders within them were created by ancient glaciers Initially mocked for such a suggestion, his theory soon gained traction. Still, climate science remained a small section of meteorology but in came the first breakthrough into understanding anthropogenic climate change.
It all began a few years earlier when American scientist Samuel Pierpoint Langley 25 tried to work out the surface temperature of the moon. He noted lower infrared absorption when the moon was low. Those measurements and others were then used to work out the level of cooling resulting from a lower CO 2 level, that that would lead to lower water vapor, more cooling, and more snow and ice coverage. The idea of global cooling based on lower CO 2 levels didn't require much of a leap to presume the opposite could also be true In , the first paper was published attempting to explain and discover sources of increased atmospheric CO 2 Volcanoes were an obvious choice, but researchers knew the chemical composition of the coal being burned all over the developed world during the industrial revolution and knew that a byproduct of that burning was CO 2.
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It is sometimes confused with meteorology , which is the study of weather and weather forecasting. However, climatology is mainly focused on the natural and artificial forces that influence long-term weather patterns. Scientists who specialize in this field are called climatologists. The first studies of climate can be traced back to ancient Greece, but climate science as it is now known did not emerge until the advent of the industrial age in the nineteenth century.
The science of climatology grew as scientists became interested in understanding weather patterns. Earth has been growing warmer and warmer as human industry has expanded and released more carbon into the atmosphere. This effect, called global warming , is a particularly important object of study for climatologists. By studying global warming, climatologists can better understand and predict the long-term impact of human-caused climate change.
Climatologists seek to understand three main aspects of climate. The first aspect is the weather patterns that govern normal conditions in different regions throughout the world. Secondly, climate scientists try to understand the relationship between different aspects of weather such as temperature and sunlight. The third aspect of climate that climatologists investigate is the way that weather changes over time. As a result, climatologists also study human causes of climate change; they are particularly interested in activities that release greenhouse gases and their link to global warming.
These ocean current patterns result in changes in the normal difference between atmospheric and ocean temperatures.
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