they use for food and to grow. In winter, carbon dioxide concentrations are higher in the atmosphere because plants are not taking up the gas as quickly as they release it. Year-round, plant material ...

that educators want to reproduce the graph or have students manipulate the data. The Mauna Loa CO2 data are being obtained at an altitude of 3400m in the northern subtropics and represent the longest ...

best resolution). Every year in Southern Hemisphere late winter and early spring, high in the atmosphere over Antarctica, Earth's ozone layer develops a thin spot, which scientists call the "ozone hol ...

bromine. Sea ice controls the way bromine escapes from seawater into the air. Roaming the atmosphere, bromine can do two things. It can chemically scrub out ozone-normally not a bad thing in the Arcti ...

giving the message to the 5th and 6th graders that CO2 increase does not just warm the earth atmosphere, but it impacts the ecosystems such as the rain forests, and that the impacts lead to feed backs ...

A 100-Watt light bulb power rating is 100 W, left on for one hour it will use 100Wh of energy. In NYC it costs about 19 cents per kWh, so leaving your 100 Watt bulb on for 10 hours uses 1000 Wh or 1 k ...

connects what we can learn about the past to infer about the future of our oceans and atmosphere - Incorporates a large foundation of contextual information including: the Paleocene- Eocene Thermal Ma ...

warms the rest of the tropical atmosphere as well. So early in a typical event, the atmosphere in regions far from the eastern Pacific SST anomalies—say, in the Indian Ocean, western Pacific, or Atlan ...

to see the process of ocean acidification in action. It creates a carbon-dioxide rich atmosphere above a layer of water with a pH indicator in a cup. The carbon dioxide diffuses into the water and eve ...

curve over time. The animation then moves into exploring pre-industrial and ice age atmospheric CO2 concentrations. This animation is called the "pumphandle" because the seasonal up/down of CO2 resem ...