Wednesday, 12 February 2014

Week 3: Signals of Climate Change

What evidence do we have of the singles of climate change, including an increase in extreme weather events?
 
·         Observing weather has led to key indications of climate change
·          As time has progressed weather data has become more reliable.
·         On land we measure using thermometers inside Stevenson screens, which shield the thermometers from the direct effects of radiation and rainfall.
·         Meteorological temperatures are always measured in the shade, and those are the temperatures weather forecasters predict.
·         We regularly collect observation in temperature rainfall ect.
·         Sometimes balloons are using to collect a 3d view of weather
·         And we have submarines
·         Key weather changes of climate change: global mean temperature over land and ocean, recent ocean is warmest overall.
·         Steady rise in sea level half due to thermal expansion and half due to melting land ice.
·         Melting sea ice does not contribute to sea level rise.
·         Temperatures have been highest in polar arctic region.
·         The surface of arctic sea ice in summer has dropped from around 4m square kilometres to around 1.5m square kilometres.
·         Its difficult to say wither tornados, tsunamis are part of a long term climate change signal or just natural fluctuations.
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