9251206758 | aerosol effect | atmospheric cooling that occurs where and when aerosol pollution is the greatest | 0 | |
9251206759 | Albedo | The percentage of incoming sunlight reflected from a surface | 1 | |
9251206760 | Climate | The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time | 2 | |
9251206761 | Cold front | The front edge of a moving mass of cold air that pushes beneath a warmer air mass like a wedge | 3 | |
9251206762 | convection current | a current caused by the rising of heated fluid and sinking of cooled fluid | 4 | |
9251206763 | Coriolis effect | The effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents. | 5 | |
9251206764 | cyclonic storm | a rapidly rotating storm that is has a low pressure center, strong winds and thunderstorms | 6 | |
9251206765 | El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) | short-term, periodic changes in location of warm and cold water masses in the Pacific Ocean | 7 | |
9251206766 | greenhouse effect | warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere | 8 | |
9251206767 | greenhouse gas | Gases in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, that trap solar energy. | 9 | |
9251206768 | hurricane | a storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean. | 10 | |
9251206769 | IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) | founded 1988 by WMO and UNEP; leading institution for the assessment of climate change | 11 | |
9251206770 | jet stream | a high-speed high-altitude airstream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere | 12 | |
9251206771 | Kyoto Protocol | 1997 treaty that calls for industrialized countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions | 13 | |
9251206772 | La Nina Effect | a change in the eastern Pacific Ocean in which the surface water temperature becomes unusually cool | 14 | |
9251206773 | latent heat | heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure | 15 | |
9251206774 | Milan kovitch cycle | Periodic variation in tilt eccentricity and wobble in earths orbit | 16 | |
9251206775 | Monsoon | rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains | 17 | |
9251206776 | Ozone | A form of oxygen that has three oxygen atoms in each molecule instead of the usual two. | 18 | |
9251206777 | Stratosphere | The second-lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere. | 19 | |
9251206778 | tornado | A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud that reaches down to touch Earth's surface. | 20 | |
9251206779 | Troposphere | The lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere | 21 | |
9251206780 | warm front | a front along which a warm air mass overrides a retreating mass of cooler air | 22 | |
9251206781 | weather | The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place. | 23 |
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