The North American Monsoon System
Regional Differences: The North American Monsoon System Adapted from: Michael Crimmins. 2006. Arizona and the North American Monsoon System. University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life...
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Excerpt from the Southwest Climate Change Network, written by Zack Guido, University of Arizona Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor are naturally part of the Earth’s...
View ArticleMonsoon Season in North America
Regional Differences: The North American Monsoon System previous Adapted from: Michael Crimmins. 2006. Arizona and the North American Monsoon System. University of Arizona College of Agriculture and...
View ArticleRadiative Forcing
Excerpt from the Southwest Climate Change Network, written by Zack Guido, University of Arizona Radiative forcing measures the influence that climate-altering factors have on the energy balance of the...
View ArticleHow Does the Monsoon Work?
Regional Differences: The North American Monsoon System previous Adapted from: Michael Crimmins. 2006. Arizona and the North American Monsoon System. University of Arizona College of Agriculture and...
View ArticleHow Does the Monsoon Affect Arizona?
Contents 1 Regional Differences: The North American Monsoon System 1.1 Adapted from: Michael Crimmins. 2006. Arizona and the North American Monsoon System. University of Arizona College of Agriculture...
View ArticleImportance of Temperate Forests in Climate Adaptation
Written by Bill Stewart, University of California Berkeley The varying estimates of the role of tropical deforestation in the emission of greenhouse gasses have dwarfed the unique role that temperate...
View ArticleJet Stream Activity in Climate Models
Adapted from: Lenart, M. Basics of Regional Models. (September 14, 2008). Southwest Climate Change Network Jet streams high in the atmosphere direct where moisture lands on the surface. Global climate...
View ArticleWhat Americans Really Think About Climate Change
By Melanie Lenart, University of Arizona Jon A. Krosnick, a political psychologist at Stanford University, pulled together results from various polls during his many years of social research to argue...
View ArticleIs ponderosa pine climate change resistant?
Ponderosa pine has a lot of genetic variability and built-in developmental flexibility and thus, if seed sources can move in time, it can be considered fairly adaptable to new environments.…
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