In preparation for final it will be helpful if the study guide...

In preparation for final it will be helpful if the study guide attached is completed with the answer to each question.

METR 112
SP 2016
MIDTERM Study Guide
Material
(Dessler Ch. 1-6),Lectures
 Chapter 1
o Weather vs. Climate
o climate change
o anomaly
o Global Temperature ±meseries
o Ways people should come to a scien±fc claim
o Problems how people rush to believe claims on science topics.
o IPCC
 Chapter 2.1
o Recent evidence oF climate change
 Satellite
 SurFace/land records
 Cryosphere (Arc±c Sea ice, Greenland/Antarc±c Ice Sheet, Anarc±c Sea Ice)
 Ocean
 Chapter 2.2
o Paleoproxies
 ice cores
 tree rings
o 65 mya-present
o 400 thousand years ago –present
o ice ages, inter-galacials (temperature anomalies,CO2)
o 2000 years ago-present (temperature anomalies,CO2)
 Chapter 3
o Electromagne±c Radia±on
o Temperature
o SteFan-Boltzman Law, Wien’s Law
o Earth vs. Sun and radia±on
 Chapter 4
o albedo
o Earth w/o an atmosphere vs. Earth normally.
o Natural Greenhouse E²ect
o Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) (Natural vs. Anthropogenic)
o 1-layer vs. 2-layer climate model
 Chapter 5
o Layers oF the atmosphere/Earth’s atmosphere
o GHGs warming poten±al