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Content
- What is the lapse rate in the troposphere like compared to the lapse rate in the stratosphere?
- How does the lapse rate in the troposphere affect geographic temperature patterns?
- How does the water vapor content of the atmosphere affect temperature? Why?
- How does the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere affect temperature? Why?
- On what time scales (hours, days, years, hundreds of years, thousands of years) do we notice the impact of water vapor on temperature?
- On what time scales (hours, days, years, hundreds of years, thousands of years) do we notice the impact of carbon dioxide on temperature?
- How has the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere changed over the past 400,000 years?
- What is the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere today like compared to the past 400,000 years?
- Why should we care about this change in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere?
- In what layer of the atmosphere do we find the most ozone?
- What impact does change in the atmospheric ozone concentration have on insolation? Why is this important?
- How does the particulate content of the atmosphere affect temperature? Why?
Karen A. Lemke: klemke@uwsp.edu
Last revised January 19, 2007