The Wind Blows
Surface winds always blow away from these pressure regions.
What are high pressure regions?
This well known gas is the end result of burning fossil fuels.
What is CO2?
Intense storms and rain usually involve this type of front.
What is a cold front?
A strengthened greenhouse effect causes this immediate (or nearly immediate) change in global climate.
What is rising temperature?
The radiant energy that enters the Earth's atmosphere and strikes reflective clouds will experience this interaction.
What is reflected out into space?
Tropical surface winds typically blow in this direction.
What is towards the equator?
Produced from burning coal, these gases are also used by dentists and adventurous mechanics.
Muggy grey days with overcast skies and light precipitation.
What is a warm front?
Oceans experience this change as temperature increases.
What is sea/ocean level rise?
Thermal energy radiated from the planet into an atmosphere with minimal to no greenhouse gases will experience this transmission.
What is radiated out into space?
In the Arctic circle, surface winds typically blow in this cardinal direction.
What is south?
A natural part of the stratosphere, this version of a common element is harmful at lower altitudes.
What is ozone (O3)?
Tall, towering dark clouds are linked to cold fronts, and have this name.
What are cumulo-nimbus clouds?
Polar regions are most dramatically affected by climate change due to this atmospheric process.
What is the heat pump or atmospheric circulation?
Thermal energy radiated by a planet with an atmosphere containing large quantities of CO2 and CH4 will be transmitted in this way
What is trapped in the atmosphere and re-emmitted multiple times before escaping?
Between cyclones & anti-cyclones, the surface winds blow toward this location.
What is the cyclone?
Produced by animal farming, this is one of the most potent greenhouse gases.
What is methane (CH4)?
This property of cold air gives it more kinetic energy than warm air, even at the same speed!
What is density?
Polar ice melting leads to a reduction in this property of the planet's surface.
What is albedo?
In an anti-cyclone region, thermal energy from the Earth's surface mostly transmits in this way, due to the humidity.
What is radiating out into space?
In the upper atmosphere, winds blow in this direction, relative to the surface winds.
What is the opposite direction?
This self-regulating greenhouse gas cycles easily in and out of the atmosphere, it is of minimal concern to climate change.
What is water/water vapour (H2O)?
Regardless of the type of front, the warm airmass always moves in this direction.
What is upward?
Melting polar ice, sea level rise and a reduction in forest biomes are all linked to climate change causing this type of loop.
What is a positive/strengthening feedback loop?
These atmospheric structures can have variable effects on radiation depending on their shape, colour and density.
What are clouds?