Subject 3. Climate Change History, Measurement & Causes
This group of five Lessons is mainly about climate cycles and how they and not CO2 are ultimately responsible for the fluctuations in our climate that had us panic-stricken in the 1970's because of global cooling and now has us panic-stricken because of global warming. I'm afraid we never learn!
Lesson 14. Topics:
Arctic Oscillation (AO), North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), Positive NAO, Negative NAO, The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and The Monsoon, Description of the ITCZ and the Hadley Circulation, Seasonal Variations and Effects of the ICTZ, Monsoons and the ICTZ are Affected by Geography, Factors that Modify Monsoons, The Indo Australian Monsoon, Description Factors that Cause and Modify the Indo Australian Monsoon, The Effect on Australia, The Madden-Julian Oscillation, Effects on Australia, Southern Annular Mode (SAM), Positive SAM, Negative SAM, Trends and Connections with other Climate Cycles
Summary
Even though there are two full Lessons on climate cycles this is by no means an exhaustive list and new discoveries are being regularly made. Being an Australian I have concentrated mainly in this Lesson on Southern Hemisphere cycles as they are important, indeed vital to our economy and well being. Indeed Lesson 16 is exclusively about how dominated the Australian climate is by these cycles.
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