Slide 1Buffers and Feedback Loops Class Notes 1:6 Slide 2 Buffers and Feedback Loops Buffers are agents or regulatory mechanisms that reduce or minimize fluctuations and…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Chapter 5: Ecosystems and the Physical Environment Slide 3 The Atmosphere http://mediatheek.thinkquest.nl/~ll125/en/atmos.htm Slide 4 The Atmosphere Slide…

Slide 1 Earth: The Water Planet Slide 2 Planetary Temperature and Energy in the Climate System Sources? Geothermal Heat Flow (cooling of Earth’s hot interior) –0.075…

Slide 1 Biomarkers in Super Earth Atmospheres: Photochemical Responses John Lee Grenfell Zentrum für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Technische Universität (TU) Berlin 1,2…

Slide 1 Daisyworld Slide 2 Daisy World Slide 3 Gaia Theory: the world is a strongly interacting system William Golding – Nobel laureate Oxford physics undergraduate James…

Slide 1 Global Energy Balance Te/KTm/KTsurf/K Venus227230750 Earth256250280 Mars216220218 [Jupiter 98130134 ] Slide 2 Simple Greenhouse analogy Slide 3 Infra-red emission…

Slide 1 IPCC AR4 Slide 2 Climate Change – Greenhouse Gases A. A.Background Greenhouse Effect Gases absorb heat (long-wave radiation) Natural Greenhouse Effect Mean planetary…

ECRWSS PRESORTED STANDARD U.S. POSTAGE PAID DENTON PUBLICATIONS/ NEW MARKET PRESS PO Box 338 Elizabethtown NY 12932 Postal Patron Fair Haven car dealer arrested for arson…