10-22-09

Here are my notes for today the whole class had to go in groups to work on Solar energy, Latitude, Global Pressure Systems and i didnt get the last one but it has a long title.


Solar Energy
• Solar energy is responsible for weather patterns and ocean movement
• Clouds and wind can prevent the suns energy from reaching the earth
• The sun emits re-radiation this re-radiation is trapped by the clouds witch makes live possible on earth
Latitude
• Latitude is a set of circles describing positions north and south of the equator
• The climate in one longitude is going to be the same climate as the one to the left or to the right of you
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• Countries that border the ocean have the same weather year round
• Continentally is basically land locked you are in the middle of the continent
• Maritime climates: are those close to the ocean and they have cool cloudy summers
• Land and water differs in their abilities to absorb and reradiate insulation that will determine the climate of that area
Global Pressure Systems
• Expand during the warm summer month
• Summer months create hurricanes
• Trade winds - are warm low breezes the blow pretty much all the time
• Doldrums - trade winds coming from north and south and meet up
• Prevailing Westerlies - The wind that moves towards the poles and look like its curving east
• Polar Easterlies - prevailing westerlies join with theses to reduce wind patterns
• Air flows from high pressure to low pressure to winds flow into low pressure cells, in the winter the opposite happens