In what part of the atmosphere is the ozone layer found? Why is this layer important to life on Earth?
Name 3 atmospheric pollutants found in large amounts in a city like Phoenix, Arizona. What are the main sources of these pollutants?
Name two 20th century meteorological instruments that are essential in the forecasting of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms.
Describe the mean climate during the 13th and 14th centuries. How did this climate affect local populations?
Which areas of the United States are most likely to be affected by hurricanes? Why?
What is the principal driver of the general circulation of the atmosphere?
Name the three parameters that define the Earth's orbit around the sun and were used to explain the ice ages. Which of thse when changed alters the distance between the Earth and the sun through the year?
Name three environmental indicators that can be used to reconstruct past climates.
What were the changes in climate in the southwestern US that supposedly forced the Anasazi Indians to abandon their settlements?
Below are two diagrams describing feedback processes in the atmosphere. Which of these is a positive feedback? Which is a negative feedback? Explain briefly your answers.
Climate models can be used to study a large array of climate processes and the sensitivity of climate to changes in these processes. Name three possible experiments were climate models can be used.
Name three possible consequences of a mean global warming of surface temperatures of 1.5-4.5 degrees C in the next century.