Climate change

Climate change

The phenomenon of climate's temperature and rainfall slowly changing year by year.

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radiation

Natural environment; Climate change

Energy transfer in the form of electromagnetic waves or particles that release energy when absorbed by an object.

borehole

Natural environment; Climate change

Any exploratory hole drilled into the Earth or ice to gather geophysical data. Climate researchers often take ice core samples, a type of borehole, to predict atmospheric composition in earlier ...

annex i parties

Natural environment; Climate change

Group of countries included in Annex I (as amended in 1998) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including all the developed countries in the Organization of Economic ...

feedback mechanisms

Natural environment; Climate change

Factors which increase or amplify (positive feedback) or decrease (negative feedback) the rate of a process. An example of positive climatic feedback is the ice-albedo feedback.

parts per trillion (PPT)

Natural environment; Climate change

Number of parts of a chemical found in one trillion parts of a particular gas, liquid or solid.

climate sensitivity

Natural environment; Climate change

In Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, equilibrium climate sensitivity refers to the equilibrium change in global mean surface temperature following a doubling of the ...

water vapor

Natural environment; Climate change

The most abundant greenhouse gas, it is the water present in the atmosphere in gaseous form. Water vapor is an important part of the natural greenhouse effect. While humans are not significantly ...