Modelling
The long-term average of a climate variable (e.g. temperature).
What is the climatology?
A period of high temperatures.
What is a heatwave?
The layer of gases surrounding the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The name of the building where Taylor, Jeremy, and Evan work.
What is the Earth Science Building?
Taylor, Jeremy, and Evan Graduated with these Bachelor's Degrees.
Which are Physics, Earth and Ocean Sciences, and Earth and Ocean Sciences?
The difference from the long-term average of a climate variable (e.g. temperature).
What is an anomaly?
Weather phenomenon tracked by a long antenna on the roof of ESB.
What is lightning?
The cause of a sudden increase in human CO2 emissions in the 1700s.
What is the industrial revolution?
This building is used a lot in movies and tv shows filmed on campus.
What is Irving K. Barber library?
The season Taylor studies heat waves in.
What is spring?
How we study the effects of greenhouse gases and emissions on future climates.
What is a climate model experiment?
The process of water moving around the world, driven by dense water sinking in the North Atlantic.
What is the Ocean Conveyer belt?
Ice has a higher/lower albedo which means it absorbs more/less radiation, while the ocean has a high/lower albedo which means it absorbs more/less radiation. (pick one option for each)
What is higher albedo, less radiation and lower albedo, more radiation?
The name of the Elasmosaur hanging in the atrium of this building.
What is Dorothy?
The effect with an acronym of UHI in Jeremy's research.
What is the Urban Heat Island effect?
The information ice cores give us that help us model past climates.
What is oxygen / firn air / isotopes?
The El Nino Southern Oscillation takes place in this ocean.
What is the Pacific?
A time in Earth's history where a natural decrease in greenhouse gas emissions caused the Earth to get colder - which increased ice formation - which caused the Earth to get even colder - which caused even more ice to form - ...
What is the snowball Earth?
The student community building that acts as a lounge space and food court.
What is the Nest?
The object Kelly and Evan use to study ocean currents.
What is a drifter?
The dataset you used to learn how to analyze climate data in python xarray.
What is ERA5 reanalysis?
The UK has a mild climate because currents bring warm water from here, which would stop if ice were to melt here.
What is the Gulf of Mexico and Greenland?
The type of radiation that is partially blocked from leaving Earth.
What is longwave radiation?
Where the whale in the Beaty Biodiversity Museum washed up in 1987.
What is Prince Edward Island?
The length of the ice core that Jamie's team drilled.
What was 600?