good tool to introduce the concepts. This resource addresses how heat radiates in Earth's atmosphere, which common gases are greenhouse gases, and what those gases are. The lesson plan provides backgr ...

break up the ice, increasing the potential for energy to transfer from the ocean to the atmosphere, further increasing storm potential. At the time of this review (2016), the summer of 2012 still hold ...

coverage is reduced, less sunlight is reflected back into space and more is trapped in the atmosphere, ocean, and land. References and Related Reading. Parkinson, C. L. (2014) Global Sea Ice Coverage ...

Nature Conservancy — Wetlands Restoration for Ecosystem and Community Resilience in He'eia O'ahu. To restore function in a degraded but historically, culturally, and ecologically important watershed o ...

Planning with extreme weather thresholds catalyzes a $400,000 green infrastructure investment in a historically underserved neighborhood in Las Cruces, New Mexico. * Home. Lessons Learned :. * Employ ...

Response and Recovery Project for Water Utilities in Tuolumne Utilities District, CA. The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's storymap contains case studies and videos that describe the experience ...

was Andres on May 28. Taking advantage of warmer-than-average waters and a hurricane-friendly atmosphere—both common during El Niño—Andres strengthened into a Category 4 storm with 150-mile-per-hour w ...

become swept up in the winds of the Bermuda High — a migrating area of high pressure in the atmosphere. Steered by the Bermuda High's clockwise circulation, many storms curve back eastward into open w ...

Published : . March 2012. Oxfam America, in their work to shed light on the vulnerability of the geography and people of the U. S. Southeast, commissioned two reports from the Hazards and Vul ...

the result of this pathway is climate forcing of 8.5 Watts per square meter at the top of the atmosphere. Based on the energy imbalance along this pathway, global climate models calculate temperature ...