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Transcript of MET 102 Pacific Climates and Cultures Lecture 3: Temperature.
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MET 102 Pacific Climates and Cultures
Lecture 3: Temperature
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Discussion – Kirch 2000 Reading
• What are the 4 main types of island?
• Which direction does the water flow at the equator?
• Based on “Map 4” what winds would you consider the most important for this region?
• What are the two features that are “basic to insularity” that help to define island ecosystems?
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Discussion – Kirch 2000 Reading• What are the 4 main types of island?
• Island-Arc Type (formerly “continental”)• Among the largest islands• Western edge of the Pacific• E.g. New Zealand
• High Islands• Midplate hot spot origin• E.g. Hawai’i
• Atolls• Coral, Most precarious, little fresh water
• Makatea Type• An atoll or old high island surrounded by a barrier reef
becomes elevated above sea level• Makatea means “white stone” (reef limestone)
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Discussion – Kirch 2000 Reading
• Which direction does the water flow at the equator?
• East to West across the equator
• Based on “Map 4” what winds would you consider the most important for this region?
• The Trade Winds (both North and South)
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Discussion – Kirch 2000 Reading• What are the two features that are “basic to insularity” that help to define
island ecosystems?• ISOLATION• LIMITED SIZE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean
• Kirch citing Fosberg, 1963a:5• limitation in, or even absence of certain other resources; • limitation in organic diversity; • reduced inter-species competition;• protection from outside competition and consequent
preservation of archaic, bizarre, or possible ill-adapted forms;• tendency toward climatic equability; • extreme vulnerability, or tendency towards great instability
when isolation is broken down; • and tendency toward rapid increase in entropy when change
has set in
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Atmospheric Composition
• What is “AIR”?
• The atmosphere is a mixture of gases, mostly:
• 78% -- Nitrogen (N)• 21% -- Oxygen (O2)• 1% -- Argon (Ar), Carbon Dioxide
(CO2), Water Vapor (H2Ov) and other gases
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Temperature – Vertical Structure• Thermosphere
• very high temperatures, the sun warms N2 and O2 and heats up the rarefied “air.” Temperature is high due to the interactions of the energized molecules bumping into one another. No well defined top.
• Mesosphere • returns to normal temperature decrease with height, top
is called the Mesopause
• Stratosphere • sun warms ozone, ozone warms the air, temperature
increases with height, top is called the Stratopause
• Troposphere • warmed by the surface of the earth, decreases with
height, top is called Tropopause, where we live and all the weather we experience happens
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Horizontal Temperature
s• Warmer at the
equator than at the poles
• Continents warmer than ocean at same latitude
• Island will be slightly warmer than the surrounding ocean
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Heat vs. Temperature• HEAT - The TRANSFER of energy into or
out of an object because of TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES
• It is the FLOW of energy!
• After heat is transferred it is stored as internal energy in the molecules of the air and water (any type of matter).
• Why do we care for PCC?• Movement of heat from the equator to the
poles will play a role in both winds and ocean currents!
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Winds and Ocean Currents• Why and where the wind blows is related to the heat transfer from the
Equator to the Poles• The wind drives the ocean currents due to friction (more on Thursday).
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Seasons• What are seasons? Why do some locations
on earth have “stronger” seasons and others “weaker?”
• Seasons are primarily due to:• Change in the length of day accounts for some.
• Gradual change in the angle of the sun at noon.
• Affects the amount of energy received at Earth’s surface
• When overhead strongest• Lower angle less intense
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Angle of IncidenceAngle of incoming sunlight intensity per unit surface area
Same flash light
Larger lighted area Smaller radiation per unit area
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Hours of SunlightTR
OPI
CSTRO
PICS
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Length of DaylightLatitude
(degrees)NH Summer
Solstice(Jun 21)
NH Winter Solstice(Dec 21)
Equinoxes(Mar. 20, Sep.
22)
0 12 hr 12 hr 12 hr
10 12 hr 35 min 11 hr 25 min 12 hr
20 13 hr 12 min 10 hr 48 min 12 hr
30 13 hr 56 min 10 hr 04 min 12 hr
40 14 hr 52 min 9 hr 8 min 12 hr
50 16 hr 18 min 7 hr 42 min 12 hr
60 18 hr 27 min 5 hr 33 min 12 hr
70 2 months 0 hr 00 min 12 hr
80 4 months 0 hr 00 min 12 hr
90 6 months 0 hr 00 min 12 hr
• Near the equator you get close to 12 hours of sunlight, or longer every day of the year!
Oahu, Hawaii21.4667° N, 157.9833°
W
• In the middle and polar latitudes locations experience large differences in length of daylight from season to season.
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Length of Day, Sun angle and Seasons• Why does length of day and sun angle
change?• Earth’s orientation to the sun is
constantly changing
• The TILT of the Earth!!!• 23.5 degrees• Without the tilt we wouldn’t have seasons
More TILT = Strong seasons
Less TILT = Weaker seasons
No TILT = No Seasons
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Measuring Temperature• Fahrenheit (°F)
• Freezing is at 32 and Boiling is a 212.• 180 Divisions between Freezing and Boiling• We use this temperature scale here in the USA.
• Celsius (°C)• Decimal Scale (powers of 10)• 0 degrees = Freezing and 100 degrees = Boiling• 100 between Freezing and Boiling• Scientists use this.
• Kelvin (K)• Called the “Absolute Scale”• Same Spacing as Celsius
• 100 divisions between boiling and freezing• 0 K = the temperature at which all molecular motion is
presumed to cease• Absolute Zero = molecules stop moving, no thermal motion.
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Global Temperatures • It’s the first thing we usually think about when we talk about “weather”
• Temperatures vary on different time scales
• Seasonally, daily and even hourly
• Temperatures vary all over the globe, by quite a bit
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Air Temperature: Day vs. Night
• On a sunny calm day, the air near the surface can be substantially warmer than air a meter or so above the surface.
• On a clear, calm night, the air near the surface is much colder than the air above. This is called a temperature inversion.
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Daily Variations in Temperature
• Minimum right before sunrise
• Maximum after noon (peak)• In = out
No heat from sun, lots of IR energy
radiated during night
Heat from sun + IR radiated up from the
surface
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Ways to average Temperature • Daily mean temperature
• Average of 24 hourly readings• Adding maximum and minimum and dividing by two.
• Daily Temperature Range• The difference between the maximum and minimum daily
temperatures
• Monthly mean temperature• Adding together the daily means for each day of a month and
then dividing by the number of days in that month
• Annual Mean Temperature• Adding together the monthly means and dividing by 12
• Annual Temperature Range• The difference between the warmest and coldest monthly
mean temperatures
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Other Controls of Temperature
• Differential Heating of Land and Water
• Ocean Currents
• Altitude
• Geographic Position
• Cloud Cover and AlbedoThursday
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Differential Heating of Land and Water
• Different surfaces absorb, emit and reflect different amounts of energy.
• This causes variations in air above each surface
• In general: Land HEATS more rapidly and to HIGHER temperatures than Water.
• In general: Land COOLS more rapidly and to LOWER temperatures than Water.
• Variations over Land are GREATER than variations over the Ocean!!!
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Ocean – Why is it less variable?
1. Surface temperature of water rises and falls slower than land
2. Water is highly mobile and mixes easily (think mixing red and blue dye… turns purple)
3. Daily changes are about 6 meters deep
4. Yearly ocean and deep lakes experience variations through a layer between 200-660 m thick!
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Land – Why is it more variable?
1. Heat does not penetrate deeply into soil or rock; it remains near the surface.
2. Rocks are not fluid… so no mixing
3. Daily temperature changes are seen only 10 cm down
4. Yearly temperature changes reach only 15 meters or less
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Opaque vs. Transparent
• Because land surfaces are opaque heat is absorbed only at the surface
• Water is transparent and lets energy from the sun penetrate to a depth of several meters
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Specific Heat
• The specific heat • the amount of heat needed to raise
the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius is greater (~3 times) than to do the same for 1 gram of soil/rock.
• The OCEANS require MORE heat to raise its temperature the same amount as an equal quantity (grams) of land.
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Evaporation over Ocean
• Evaporation is greater from Oceans than from Land
• There’s more water molecules
• Energy is required to evaporate water
• When energy is used to evaporate water it is not available for heating.
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Thursday Topics
• Finish the “Controls of Temperature” discussion
• Talk about the Hiroa and Keawa readings
• Talk about clothing types, fabric production and methods of weaving