Linkage between one store/component and another that involves movement of energy or mass
Flow
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Part of the system where energy is stored or transformed
Store
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A set of interrelated components working together towards some kind of process
System
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Water found in the atmosphere
Atmospheric Water
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Water locked up on the Earth's surface as ice
Cryospheric Water
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Discontinuous layer of water at or near the Earth's surface
Hydrosphere
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Water contained in the Earth's Oceans
Oceanic Water
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Consists of groundwater, soil moisture, lakes, wetlands and rivers
Terrestrial Water
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Processes that affect the total mass of ice at any scale from local patches of frozen ground to global ice amounts
Cryospheric processes
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Area of land drained by a river and its tributaries
Drainage Basin
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Total output of water from the drainage basin directly back into the atmosphere
Evapotranspiration
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Slow movement of water through underlying rocks
Groundwater flow
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Precipitation that falls on the vegetation surfaces or human made cover and is temporarily stored on these surfaces
Interception Storage
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Tendency of water to flow horizontally across land surfaces when rainfall has exceeded the infiltration capacity of the soil and all surface stores
Overland Flow
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Downward movement of water within the rock under the soil surface
Percolation
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All the water that enters a river channel and eventually slows out of the drainage basin
Run-off
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Portion of precipitation intercepted by the canopy that reaches the ground by flowing down stems, stalks or tree bole
Stemflow
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Portion of the precipitation that reaches the ground directly through gaps in the vegetation canopy and drips from leaves, twigs and stems
Throughfal
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Maximum discharge that a river channel is capable of carrying without flooding
Bankfull
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Normal day to day discharge of the river
Baseflow
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Amount of water in a river flowing past a particular point
Discharge
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Time between peak rainfall and peak discharge
Lag Time
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Discharge resulting from storm precipitation involving both overland flow, throughflow and groundwater flow
Storm flow
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Graph of discharge of a river over the time period when the normal flow of the river is affected by a storm event
Storm Hydrograph
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Carbon dioxide generated by human activity
Anthropogenic CO2
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Total sum of all living matter
Biosphere
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Capture of CO2 from the atmosphere or capturing anthropogenic CO2 from large scale stationary sources like power plants before it is released to the atmosphere
Carbon Sequestraton
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Store of carbon that absorbs more carbon than it releases
Carbon Sink
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Any gaseous compound in the atmosphere that is capable of absorbing infared radiation, thereby trapping and holding heat in the atmosphere
Greenhouse Gas
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Crust and uttermost mantle
Lithosphere
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Breakdown of rocks insitu by a combination of weather, plants and animals
Weathering
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Impact on the climate from the additional retained due to the increased amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases that humans have released into the Earth's atmosphere since the industrial revolution
Enhanced Greenhouse effect
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Technology of capturing greenhouse gas emissions from power stations and pumping them into underground reservoirs
Geo-sequestration
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Difference between the incoming solar energy absorbed by the Earth and energy radiated back to space
Radiative forcing
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Organic constituents in the soil
Soil Organic Carbon
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Part of the system where energy is stored or transformed
Back
Store
Card 3
Front
A set of interrelated components working together towards some kind of process
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