Environmental Ecology
- Created by: Ellie0o0o
- Created on: 17-05-15 07:43
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- Environmental Ecology
- The Earth's Radiative Budget
- Sun less intense per square meter
- Rays deflected by the atmosphere
- More deflection at the poles
- Forcing
- Shortwave
- Albedo
- Milankovitch cycles
- Circular vs eliptical orbit
- Wobble
- Axis tilt
- Sunspots
- 7-10 years
- Pattern with climate until 60s
- Longwave
- Greenhouse gases
- Large amounts
- Nitrogen
- Oxygen
- Argon
- Medium amounts
- Water vapour
- Carbon dioxide
- Methane
- Absorb in IF zones where nothing else does
- Nitrous oxide
- Absorb in IF zones where nothing else does
- Small amounts
- Ozone
- Hydrocarbons
- Other
- Large amounts
- Greenhouse gases
- Shortwave
- Sun less intense per square meter
- Circulations
- Ocean water pulled to centre of gyres
- Highest chlorophyll conc. at coast
- Coastal ecosystems most productive
- Movement of water towards the centre of gyres pulls up nutrient rich deep waters at the coast to replace it
- Coastal ecosystems most sensitive to change
- Temperature
- Acidification
- Coastal ecosystems most productive
- Highest chlorophyll conc. at coast
- 40% energy hitting the equtor moved toward the poles
- Sea water salinity - net rainfall and evaporation
- Warm water less CO2
- Up-welling and warming of waters at equator releases lots of CO2
- Altering CO2 alters the ocean equilibrium
- Alters community composition
- Alters sedimentation
- Alters community composition
- Nutrient cycling
- Box model
- Closed sysem
- In equilibrium
- C -> N -> Mn -> Fe -> S -> Methane production
- 49% methane used by methanotropes before escape
- Nitrogen high solubility in water
- Lots of run off when it rains
- NOx
- Mono nitrogen oxides
- Combution
- Lightening
- Cars
- Box model
- Ocean water pulled to centre of gyres
- Soil formation
- Climate
- Water
- How acidic is the rainfall
- Pressure
- Water
- Parent material
- Relief
- Organisms
- Time
- Organic horizon
- Climate
- Modelling
- Boundary conditions
- Model types
- Heuristic
- Theoretical
- Daisy World
- Inquisative
- Test current understanding
- Predictive
- Heuristic
- Model types
- Non-linear
- Feed-back cycles
- Pre-casting
- Boundary conditions
- Ozone
- 25km
- Chapman cycle
- O2 and O3
- Depletion means less UV protection in Australia and South America
- The Earth's Radiative Budget
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