Homework Set 6
Complete the following homework problems from your textbook Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast:
 
•         Page 26, #1 and #3
•         Page 55, #1 and #5
•         Page 167, #2, #3, #4 and #5
 
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Page 26, #1 A greenhouse layer increases the amount of heat energy in the ground layer. From where does this energy come?
Page 26, #3 What factors in the Layer Model could affect the skin temperature?
Page 55, #1 Explain why a well-mixed column of gas is warmer on the bottom.
Page 55, #5 A parcel of air rises by convection in the atmosphere, losing its water as rain and getting cooler following the moist lapse rate. It gets sucked into an airplane engine, where it is re-compressed to the pressure at the ground level without replacing the water. Is the air warmer or colder than air at the ground? What happens to the relative humidity?
Page 167, #2 What is the role of vegetation in a drought?
Page 167, #3 Why would storminess increase in a warming world? What kinds of storms could be affected?
Page 167, #4 What are the factors that would increase the risk of storm-surge flooding associated with tropical storms?
Page 167, #5 Why do some kinds of ice on Earth change the sea level when they melt while others do not?