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Why doesn't average temperature give a complete picture of climate?
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Climate is the areas long term weather pattern and temperature is more of a seasonal pattern. The temperature will change with the time of year but the climate will stay the same.
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What happens to the melting point temperature as pressure increases?
Corrected:In water, there is a small DEcrease in melting temperature of ice, as pressure increases.Added:In 'Related links' attached to this page (lower left corner) a diagram-picture of"Melting point: Temperature and Pressure" is shown asGreen line for most 'normal' solidsand ofWater-Ice: it is the Green-Dotted line.
How can you tell the kind of kind of front passing by just observing the weather?
There are several different types of fronts, a warm front and a cold front. What these fronts do mainly is effect the temperature, the one that normally brings the rain is the cold front, because the cold air is colliding with the warm air already in place. When a cold front passes over, it lowers the temperature, here's a picture of what this front looks like on a weather map: When a warm front passes over, it warms the temperature, but when a cold front comes through right after that, it can spark some severe weather, here's a picture on what this front looks like on a weather map:
The rise in average global temperatures over time?
Earth is a ball shape and the light shine on earth hit earth. While earth is a ball of surface area 4.pi.R2 but earth is visible to sun as a circle with area Pi.R2. Visible area to Sun V.S. actual surface area is the key to different light intensity. Picture the equator, light is most intense at the centre (most intense/area). At North or South pole, light is less intense since it is more surface area than visible area. So it was not heat-up evenly and so the temperature variation. There are many more factor such as wind direction, geometry shape of terrain and water current add extra variation to global temperature as well.
What do scientists believe is the primary cause of earth's climate fluctuations?
If you mean the present climate change, then scientists agree that it is caused by man's deforestation and burning of fossil fuels.Another View:If we are discussing actual major temperature changes though, like the warming trend of the past 11,000 years the answer is far different and the changes far ore profound.What is known about our long term history of climate change comes primarily from a single source. The glacial samples from Lake Vostok in Antarctica. These samples tell us, with remarkable detail some interesting things:1. we know the planet goes through cycles. These cycles are regular and the longest is just over 100K years long. We are in the warmest section of this long cycle currently.This warming is believed to be caused by planetary alignments of the major planets in our solar system. Our orbit around the sun is far from a perfectly circular orbit and the distance our planet is from the sun varies greatly. When all of the larger planets are scattered throughout the solar system we have a far more elliptical orbit the when the larger planets are all on a single side of the sun. This event happens once every 100K years and corresponds to these warm periods. This current cycle has seen an overall warming of about 11 degrees C from this issue. Man's contribution is an unknown portion of a partial contribution of the 0.3 degrees of warming we have seen since 1939. Even if man is the sole contributor, it is nothing compared to this warming.Other portions of our orbit that influence our climate are listed within the Milankovich effect link below.2. Solar variation is agreed by climate experts to have assisted in temperature variations, including the current cycle of warming. The problem here is that, according to the IPCC, (the United Nations body that is considered the bible of climate change) that while we know it has caused some portion of the current climate change, what portion and how is still "very poorly" understood.(see IPCC links)While there are other issues that have caused the major climate changes of the past few thousand years, these two are in the primary category.3. It is also likely that a wobble in the Earth's axis of rotation contributes to these ice age cycles we've seen wax and wane over the past 800,000 years (based on ice cores, so may not be globally representative in details, but it is in the big picture). The cycle has been quite regular the last 400,000 years, and seems to be getting more pronounced and longer with time. Five times in the last 400,000 years we've seen a very steep rise in temperatures to come out of an ice age, then the temperatures begin a much slower descent back into ice age conditions. The most recent cycle (before the sharp warming that started about 25,000 years ago) was most pronounced, with Earth's average temperature possibly fluctuating by as much as 15C from the peak ~125,000 years ago to the nadir ~30,000 years ago. Taking anthropomorphic global warming out of the equation, and looking purely at the ice age cycle, we appear to have reached the end of the cycle's sharp temperature increase several thousand years ago, and should be in the early stages of the gradual cool-down toward an ice age.
What is short for picture element?
pixel
When the torn picture is complete how do you open the switch?
you cant
What is an object on gamemaker?
A sprite (picture) with the ability to complete actions.
How do you complete grow farm?
How to complete Grow Valley1:Design Systems(The picture of the compass) 2:Architectual Systems(The picture of a pick axe)3:Electricity and Electronic information System(The picture of a micro chip)4:Mechanical System(The picture of a blue Gear)5:Mathmaticle chemistry System(The picture of a Magnafing glass)6:Matters/Chemical System(The picture of a chemistry7:Life sciences System(The picture of a heart)Use in this order on grow valley and you will complete it with no trouble, You can find grow vally on many sites, Such as Lapoo & FlongaBy Essie999
The average storage life of a CVS Picture CD is years?
The face of the CVS Picture CD states: "up to 100 years* of estimated storage life" "*storage life varies depending on relative humidity, storage temperature, and UV exposure. The CD jacket adds: "...To maximize storage life, store in a dark container at room temperature, relative humidity <40%."
'the picture is perfectly made of pure silver' identify parts of speech?
The picture = the complete subject The = an article acting as an adjective, modifies the word 'picture'. "What picture? THE picture." Picture = a noun acting as the simple subject Is = complete verb Is = a linking verb Perfectly made = the complete predicate adjective Perfectly = an adverb modifying the word 'made'. "How was it made? It was made PERFECTLY." Made = the predicate adjective, describes the subject Of pure silver = a prepositional phrase acting as an adverb Of = the preposition Pure = adjective modifying the word 'silver' Silver = a noun acting as the object of the preposition
Why do you need all these Celts and all the Romans vikings?
To get a complete picture of history.
