Climate--The average weather over years and longer…

1. 001 Climate--The average weather over years and longer… Chapter 1 frontispiece. Satellite view looking east from Patagonia over southern Argentina and the South Atlantic Ocean E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: NASA

2. 002 ocean: 1000x heat, 50x carbon Chapter 1 frontispiece. Satellite view looking east from Patagonia over southern Argentina and the South Atlantic Ocean E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: NASA

3. 003 Figure 1.1. The dynamic climate system E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press.

4. 004 Table 1.1. Different timescales of weather and climate daily warm days, cool nights 3-7 days weather events, e.g., passages of fronts yearly seasons 2-7 years El Niño events (ENSO) 1-3 decades oscillations in atmospheric circulation patterns, e.g., North Atlantic centuries multi-century cold and warm periods 104 - 105 years Milankovitch cycles > 106 years positions of continents, changes in atmospheric composition, changes in solar luminosity E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Christy et al., 2006

5. 005 Figure 1.2. The Keeling curve E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Scripps Institution of Oceanography CO2 Program

6. 006 Figure 1.3. The change in the average global land-surface air temperature relative to the 1961–1990 mean temperature E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Trenbreth et al., 2007