ES4270

The Natural Environment and Engineering

 

Revision for Exam (May/June 2005)

Prepared on 10 Mar 2005

For Exam revision guidance

 

Below is a list of the materials (and links) I provided for my part of the module.  More detailed exam revision guidance for my part of the module is given here:  ES427-Revision.htm

 

·        Dr Davies web site

·        Dr Purnell’s web site

 

The ES427 Data Sheet

Certain chemical equations will be supplied as given information on the exam.  A copy of this sheet is on (should be!) my office door (A315).

 

 

Texts:

 

[KKC.1] Kump, JF Kasting and RG Crane, The Earth System (Prentice-Hall, 1st Edition).

[KKC.2] Kump, JF Kasting and RG Crane, The Earth System (Prentice-Hall, 2nd Edition).

[JB] Joe Buchdahl, Global Climate Change Student Guide [on-line text]. 

 

 

Handouts:

 

[H1] RadiationLaws.doc -- Brief explanation of the radiation laws. 

[H2] SolarRadiation.doc -- Solar Radiation and the Temperature of the Planets (includes worked examples). 

[H3] ES427-GHexamples.pdf -- Example problems on the Greenhouse effect (no solutions). 

[H4] ES427-MoleCalc.doc -- Mole-Calculations handout includes worked examples. 

[H5] THC-deepocean-Chap13.pdf – Article from an on-line oceanography textbook.  Technical (i.e. mathematical) but you can avoid that and concentrate on the descriptive information.

[H6] The Thermohaline Circulation (article by J.R. Toggweiler and R.M. Key on the THC; copied from the Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Sciences). 

            Note that I have provided additional (maybe even better) materials on the THC that help bring out the main points (the new findings) described in this article.  These materials (a paper by Broecker and a web site on the circulation of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and its neighbourhood (Drakes passage), and one on water masses and density driven flow, can be accessed via ES427-Revision.htm

[H7] Ocean-chemistry.pdf – This hand out goes through some technical material related to chemistry rate equations and deducing information about the buffering of CO2 in the ocean and how it controls the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.  The Revelle buffer factor and the Uptake factor were also derived and discussed.  As distributed in class, this handout came attached with a photocopy of pages 134-155 from MEQ Pilson, An Introduction to the chemistry of the sea.  Pilson’s text is not in the library.  The pages out of Pilson’s text discusses the uptake of anthropogenic CO2.

[Various figures] – Photocopies of various illustrative figures were distributed.  If you wish a fresh copy, see me in Term 3.

 

 

Power Point Files

 

[PP1] TheWinds-a.ppt, TheWinds-b.ppt – Describes the atmospheric circulation and the Coriolis Force.

[PP2] CarbonCycle.ppt – The Carbon Cycle

[PP3] ice_cores.ppt – Ice cores and isotopes