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Climate System
• Atmosphere– Nitrogen N2 78%
– Oxygen O2 21%
– Argon Ar 0.93%
– Carbon dioxide CO2 0.035%
– Other minor gases 0.035%
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Greenhouse Gases
• CO2, H20 and methane (CH4):
• Absorb and re-radiate radiation
• Insulates and raises Earth temperature
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GEOLOGIC RESERVOIRSGEOLOGIC RESERVOIRS
Fossilorganiccarbon
Fossilorganiccarbon
Rockcarbonates
Rockcarbonates
Fossil-fuel
burning(5.3 Gt/yr)
Fossil-fuel
burning(5.3 Gt/yr)
OCEANOCEAN
Cement production (0.1 Gt/yr)Cement production (0.1 Gt/yr)
Land-use change:
deforestation,agriculture(1.7 Gt/yr)
Land uptakeBy new plantgrowth(1.9 Gt/yr)
Ocean uptake by air-sea gas
exchange(1.9 Gt/yr)
Terrestrial biosphere
LANDLAND
ATMOSPHEREATMOSPHERE
The influence of Carbon on climate change
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GEOLOGIC RESERVOIRSGEOLOGIC RESERVOIRS
Fossilorganiccarbon
Fossilorganiccarbon
Rockcarbonates
Rockcarbonates
Fossil-fuel
burning(5.3 Gt/yr)
Fossil-fuel
burning(5.3 Gt/yr)
OCEANOCEAN
Cement production (0.1 Gt/yr)Cement production (0.1 Gt/yr)
Land-use change:
deforestation,agriculture(1.7 Gt/yr)
Land uptakeBy new plantgrowth(1.9 Gt/yr)
Ocean uptake by air-sea gas
exchange(1.9 Gt/yr)
Terrestrial biosphere
LANDLAND
ATMOSPHEREATMOSPHERE
Human activities releasea total of 7.1 Gt of carbon into the atmosphere each year.
New plant growth andair-sea gas exchangeremove 3.8 Gt/yr,…
…yielding a netatmosphericincrease of3.3 Gt/yr.
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Climate Change
Understanding Natural Climate Variability:
Use the geologic record to understand Earth Climate in the past
(Uniformitarianism)
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Milankovitch cyclesRelated to variations in:
1. Eccentricity2. Tilt of axis3. Precession (wobble)
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All of these variables change the earth-sun distance
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Is Human-induced climate change
possible?
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Long-term change can be assessed from ice cores, which record annual cycles of ice formation from snow.
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Tem
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Thousands of years before presentR
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High
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Key:TemperatureCO2
Methane
Ice Ages Deglaciation
Climate has been relatively warm andstable during the last 10,000 years.
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Years
Temperature
CO2 concentration
The 20th-century is clearly anomalous when compared with the last millennium.
Nort
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CO
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(p
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Keeling Curve
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Years
Temperature
CO2
concentration
Glo
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mp
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an
om
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(°C
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A recent warming trend correlateswith the increase in CO2.
CO
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Atmospheric CO2 Projections Under 3 Alternate Scenarios….
2000 2020 2040 2060 2080 2100
Year
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….and Estimated Average Surface Temperatures for Those Scenarios
Uncertainty envelope due to lack of knowledge of climate system
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Feedback enhances warming
• Positive Feedback: – Amplifies changes in the system.
– Temperature increase decreases Earth’s albedo by reducing snow and ice cover
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Evidence for Warming
• Weather is highly variable*
• Glaciers provide long-term trends
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1941
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2004
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Columbia glacier
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Greenland
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Greenland
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Weather Related Hazards
1. Drought2. Desertification3. Heat waves4. Snow and Ice5. Global Warming6. El Niño
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NMSU Rainfall
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1 19 37 55 73 91 109 127 145 163 181 199 217 235 253 271 289 307 325 343 361
Days since Jan 1
Cumulative Rainfall (Inches)
200620052004200320022001200020072008
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Transition zones between desertsand humid areas are fragile
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Soil gets eroded by wind and waterProductive land becomes degraded
Main culprits:OvergrazingOverplowing
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Human activity can stress the ecosystem
• Grazing• Cutting trees for charcoal• Some agriculture
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El Niño
• Pacific Ocean is pushed westward by trade winds
• Warm water off Peru is replaced by upwelling of cold, deep, nutrient-rich water
• Circulation reverses: El Niño
• 6 Year cycle
• Opposite extreme in weather patterns is La Nina
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El Niño
Subtropical trade winds weaken
Warm surface water remains in east Pacific
Incessant rain to west coasts
Fisheries suffer (no cold, nutrient-rich upwelling water)
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El Niño
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• Drainage Basins
• Discharge
• Sediment load
• Meandering/Braided rivers
• Floodplains
• Flooding
Outline
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SEA SEA LAND LAND+ 336 Runoff from land+ 398 Precipitation
over sea+ 434 Evaporation
+ 434 Evaporation– 398 Precipitation + 436 Excess to land
via precipitation
+ 107 Precipitation– 371 Evaporation
+ 436 Runoff toocean
+ 107 Precipitation– 336 Runoff to ocean
+ 471 Evaporation
Evaporation434
Precipitation398
Runoff 36
Groundwatertable Groundwater
flow
Infiltration
Surfacerunoff
Precipitation107
Evaporation71
Flux in and flux out over oceans is almost balanced.
Excess is moved toland and precipitates.Excess is moved toland and precipitates.
…or filters into soiland rock, where it moves as groundwater.
The precipitationruns off intolakes, streams,and oceans…
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Drainage Basin/Watershed
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Drainage Basins/Watersheds
• Rio Grande River basin includes:– Chama– Puerco– Pecos (and all of its tributaries)
• It doesn’t include the Gila, because it flows into Colorado
• Continental Divide (in NM) separates: – Rio Grande drainage– Colorado River drainage
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Rio Grande
Rio Grande Pecos
ColoradoGila
San Juan
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Rio Grande Watershed
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• Q=VA
• Q is discharge
• V is average velocity (m/s)
• A is cross-sectional area (m2)
• units of Q?
Discharge/Total Flow
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Discharge/Total Flow
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Discharge/Total Flow
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Stream profile depends on location
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Sediment Load and Grain Size
• Streams can be provided with particles of any size from mud to giant boulders
• Volume and velocity of flow limit size and amount of sediment that stream can carry
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Sediment Load and Grain Size
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Alluvial fans have braided streams
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Gravel delta at mouth of braided river, Cook Inlet, Alaska
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Delta reworked by wave action, Cook Inlet, Alaska