Global Warming

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Global Warming

• Brian Husted
• Eric Conrad
• Jamie Bougher
• Paul Rojas

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Background

• Theory not fact
• Concerns began in 1970
• Greenhouse Effect

http//amir.shah.org/index.php/archives/93
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Effects Water

• Sea Level
• 9-88cm rise by 2100
• Up to 4m by 2200
• Lakes Streams
• Evaporation
• Precipitation

IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001)
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Effects Agriculture

• Temperature shifts
• Precipitation
• Adaptation

http//www.moore-warner.com/postcards/newengland/V
Tspring20corn.jpg
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Effects Health

• Disease
• Cholera
• Malaria
• Pollutants
• Heat

http//yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/cont
ent/ImpactsHealth.html
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Effects Upper Peninsula

• Less Precipitation
• Mild Winters
• Longer Growing Season

http//www.thepumpguide.com/images/upper.jpg
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Effects Global Regions

• International differences

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Humans Are Bad for the Environment

• Jamie Bougher

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The Greenhouse Gases

• Water vapor
• Carbon dioxide
• Methane
• Nitrous oxide

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GLOBAL WARMING

• Alternate Ideas

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Global Warming

• Alternate Ideas
• Global Heat Island
• Solar Variation Theory
• Within Natural Variance
• Result of Little Ice Age
• Result of Tunguska Event

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Urban Heat Isand

• Raises local temperature
• Change can be from 2-10F
• Result of destruction of plant life
• Concrete, asphalt, man-made objects

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Solar Variation Theory

• Suns solar radiation output varies in a
  sinusoidal way
• Increase of sunspots result in warming periods
• Decrease in sunspots result in cooling periods
• Suns magnetic deflects cosmic rays

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Cosmic Ray

• Less cosmic rays result in less clouds
• Cosmic rays ionize air to form clouds
• Less cloud formation results in higher
  temperature
• NO ONE KNOWS WHY

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Solar Variation Theory
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Tunguska Event

• Possibly reduced ice crystals in the atmosphere
• Result in effecting thin layer clouds in
  mesosphere
• More solar radiation

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Tunguska Event
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Natural Variance
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Little Ice Age

• Began around 17th century
• Ended around 1800s
• Always warming periods after cooler periods

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Little Ice Age
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Little Ice Age
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Current Global Warming Related Research at

• By Eric Conrad

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Cloud Physics Laboratory - Dr. Raymond Shaw
Research Projects

1. Cloud Turbulence Experimentation
2. ACTOS/PICT
3. HOLODEC
4. Ice Nucleation Research

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Cloud Turbulence Experimentation
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Our Cluster 5 dual core dual processor 3.2 Ghz
Intel Xeon 64 bit Machines (20 processing
cores) 8GB Ram per machine 2TB RAID Setup Gigabit
Ethernet Software Kubuntu Linux MatLAB
Distributed Computing
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This experiment studies droplet clustering in
relationship to droplet size using 3D Holography
techniques.
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A.C.T.O.S Airborne Cloud Turbulence Observation
System P.I.C.T Phase-Doppler Interferometer for
Clouds and Turbulence A.C.T.O.S is an airborne
device flown by a helicopter that has multiple
scientific instruments attached to it to help us
understand the variable conditions within clouds.
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ACTOS Collaborated with Institute for
Tropospheric Research(IfT) Which is based out of
Leipzig, Germany. Experiment measured droplet
size and spatial distributions of water droplets
over the skys of Germany.
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Experimentation of a highly turbulent cloud
Cornell University
20-meter-long wind tunnel Measures droplet
size, speed, and arrival time Uses PICT system
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Ice Nucleation Research Studies the freezing
of water with a seed Volcanic ash is used to
see how water will freeze Water freezes better
with dust particles Sample is melted and
refrozen hundreds of times to get accurate
data Ice nucleation is still not totally
understood
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HOLODEC IDEAS3 -Instrument Development and
Education in Airborne Science(phase 3) Held at
the Research Aviation Facility of the National
Center for Atmospheric Research -Uses 3D
Holography to study spatial distribution of water
molecules in clouds
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Questions?
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Works Cited
Forests. Global Warming Impacts. 2000.
Environmental Protection Agency. 27 September
2006 lthttp//yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.ns
f/content /ImpactsForests.htmlgt. Health.
Global Warming Impacts. 2000. Environmental
Protection Agency. 27 September 2006
lthttp//yosemite.epa.gov/OAR/globalwarming.nsf/con
tent /ImpactsHealth.htmlgt. Sea Level. Global
Warming Climate. 2000. Environmental Protection
Agency. 27 September 2006 lthttp//yosemite.epa.g
ov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/
ClimateFutureClimateSeaLevel.htmlgt. Water
Resources. Global Warming Impacts. 2000.
Environmental Protection Agency. 27 September
2006 lthttp//yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.ns
f/content/ ImpactsWaterResources.htmlgt.
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Sources

• The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• - http//yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/c
  ontent/climate.html
• - http//yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/c
  ontent/emissions.htmlGHG
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  (IPCC)
• - http//www.ipcc.ch/present/graphics.htm
• Royte, Elizabeth. Garbage Land. New York Little,
  Brown and Company, 2005.
• - Page 93

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Sources Cited

• Physorg.com
• Greenhouse Theory Smashed by biggest stone
• http//www.physorg.com/news11710.html
• Newscientist.org
• Cosmic Ray Link to Global Warming Boosted
• http//www.newscientist.com/article.ns?iddn6270l
  poshome3
• GlobalWarmingArt.com
• Various Graphs
• http//www.globalwarmingart.com/
• Wikipedia
• Little Ice Age
• Solar Variation Theory
• Urban Heat Island
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_variation
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island