Climate change

Climate change

The phenomenon of climate's temperature and rainfall slowly changing year by year.

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Evapotranspiration

Natural environment; Climate change

The combined process of evaporation from the Earth's surface and transpiration from vegetation.

Streamflow

Natural environment; Climate change

The volume of water that moves over a designated point over a fixed period of time. It is often expressed as cubic feet per second (ft3/sec).

A volcano in the Philippine Islands that erupted in 1991. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo ejected enough particulate and sulphate aerosol matter into the atmosphere to block some of the incoming solar ...

Ozone

Natural environment; Climate change

Ozone, the triatomic form of oxygen (O3), is a gaseous atmospheric constituent. In the troposphere, it is created by photochemical reactions involving gases resulting both from natural sources and ...

Ozone layer

Natural environment; Climate change

The layer of ozone that begins approximately 15 km above Earth and thins to an almost negligible amount at about 50 km, shields the Earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun. The highest ...

Industrial revolution

Natural environment; Climate change

A period of rapid industrial growth with far-reaching social and economic consequences, beginning in England during the second half of the 18th century and spreading to Europe and later to other ...

Indirect emissions

Natural environment; Climate change

Indirect emissions from a building, home or business are those emissions of greenhouse gases that occur as a result of the generation of electricity used in that building. These emissions are called ...