Carbon On The Move
This term describes the rate and direction of carbon movement between two reservoirs.
What is flux?
The Sun sends energy to Earth mostly as visible and ultraviolet radiation. Earth sense energy back out mostly as this, because Earth is much cooler.
What is infrared radiation?
In def carbonMass(soil, perC): <-- these two things are called this.
What are the input variables?
You need to do the same operation to every item in a list. This is the Python tool you reach for.
What is a for loop?
This is the difference between an observed value and a defined baseline average, for example comparing today's temperature to the 1850-1900 average.
What is a climate anomaly?
This is Earth's largest active reservoir.
What is our oceans?
Nitrogen makes up most of the atmosphere but is a poor greenhouse gas. This property of the N2 molecule is why.
What is its symmetry? Its vibrations
This term hands a value back so it can be stored in a variable.
What is return?
This paradigm involves creating an empty list before a loop, adding to it inside the loop, and returning it after.
What is the accumulator sandwich?
Earth has been much warmer and much colder than today. Beyond the magnitude, this is the other property of change that matters just as much for its consequences.
What is the rate of change?
A soil carbon stock holds 2,000g of carbon and has a flux in of 50g per year, at steady state. This is the mean residence time.
What is 40 years? (stock/flux in)
If Earth's albedo suddenly increased and nothing else changed, incoming energy would drop below outgoing energy. Describe what must happen to surface temperature and why.
What is: temperature must fall until outgoing infrared drops enough to match the reduced incoming energy, establishing a new equilibrium?
x = 1750
if x > 1800:
print("A")
elif x > 1700:
print("B")
elif x > 1600:
print("C")
This is what gets printed.
What is B? (Python stops at the first true condition)
Your function needs to print each year alongside its matching methane value from two separate lists. This is the tool that lets you pull matching positions from both lists, and this is the function you need to set up the loop.
What is indexing, and what is for index in list(range(len(yearList)))?
Fossil fuels burned today formed over tens to hundreds of millions of years. Explain why this makes humans function as an external forcing on the climate system.
What is: we are transferring carbon from slow geologic reservoirs into the fast atmospheric reservoir at a rate the natural cycle can't offset?