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Climate change
The phenomenon of climate's temperature and rainfall slowly changing year by year.
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Nitrogen oxides (NOx)
Natural environment; Climate change
Gases consisting of one molecule of nitrogen and varying numbers of oxygen molecules. Nitrogen oxides are produced in the emissions of vehicle exhausts and from power stations. In the atmosphere, ...
Sensitivity
Natural environment; Climate change
The degree to which a system is affected, either adversely or beneficially, by climate variability or change. The effect may be direct (e.g., a change in crop yield in response to a change in the ...
Black carbon aerosol
Natural environment; Climate change
Black carbon (BC) is the most strongly light-absorbing component of particulate matter (PM), and is formed by the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuels, and biomass. It is emitted directly ...
Emissions factor
Natural environment; Climate change
A unique value for scaling emissions to activity data in terms of a standard rate of emissions per unit of activity (e.g., grammes of carbon dioxide emitted per barrel of fossil fuel consumed, or per ...
Soil carbon
Natural environment; Climate change
A major component of the terrestrial biosphere pool in the carbon cycle. The amount of carbon in the soil is a function of the historical vegetative cover and productivity, which in turn is dependent ...
Storm surge
Natural environment; Climate change
An abnormal rise in sea level accompanying a hurricane or other intense storm, whose height is the difference between the observed level of the sea surface and the level that would have occurred in ...
Solar radiation
Natural environment; Climate change
Radiation emitted by the Sun. It is also referred to as short-wave radiation. Solar radiation has a distinctive range of wavelengths (spectrum) determined by the temperature of the Sun.
