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Meteorology Classroom Notes
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Tuesday, December 18, 2001 08:01:29 AM EST
Tuesday, December 18, 2001 08:01:29 AM EST
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  • METEOROLOGY NOTES
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  • Layers of the Atmosphere
A TroposphereBottom layerTemperature decreases as altitude increasesPressure decreases as altitude increasesContains all life and all weatherContains CO2 and H20vapor the greenhouse gasesa.
  • additional CO2 coming from industry &exhaust
trap heat in the tropospherelayer has raised 1 degree last century1).
  • some scientists do not agree
2) claim natural warming not due to human pollution3) others say we are headed for an ice ageif trend continues, temps will raise 4 deg in next 200 years, causing ice caps to melt.
  • Total process is unknown
Causing a thinning or “hole” over Antartica which fluctuatessome “healing” has occu...
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