In keeping with the theme of Chapter 4, these Web Links are designed to demonstrate just how exciting the discipline of geography is. These sites exemplify the many concepts presented in Insolation and Temperature.
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The IPCC site is where you will find issue papers on "The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability"; Aviation and the Global Atmosphere"; "Methodological and Technological Issues in Technology Transfer"; "Emissions Scenarios"; "Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry."
- Map of Sea Surface Temperatures
View the latest sea surface temperatures here.
- WXWISE: The Earth's Radiation Energy Balance.
This site contains movies and excellent discussions of the annual cycle of albedo, net radiation, outgoing longwave radiation, and cloud radiative forcing. These movies were created using data collected through the NASA Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE).
- EPA Global Warming Site
This site has information about the climate system, including temperature, precipitation, and sea level trends; impacts on health, ecosytems, and water resources; and action citizens can take at the local, state, and national level.
- University of Illinois WW2010 Online Weather Guide: Light and Optics
This site discusses reflection, scattering, refraction, and diffraction.
