7. What is the ozone hole?
Ozone (O3) is a greenhouse gas in the stratospheric level, between 10 and 50 km above Earth’s surface. Ozone has a concentration of 2 – 8 ppm, while the remaining 210,000 ppm are taken...
by Editorial team · Published July 16, 2020
Ozone (O3) is a greenhouse gas in the stratospheric level, between 10 and 50 km above Earth’s surface. Ozone has a concentration of 2 – 8 ppm, while the remaining 210,000 ppm are taken...
by Editorial team · Published July 16, 2020
The current climate change is caused by the consistently increasing greenhouse effect, which results from increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. These greenhouse gases (carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, ozone and nitrous oxide)...
by Editorial team · Published July 16, 2020
Through Earth’s history, the climate has changed considerably over a wide range, from ice ages to warm periods without any ice at the poles. These climate variations had several triggering mechanisms, like variation in...
by Editorial team · Published July 16, 2020
Climate sensitivity is a measure used for climate modeling, which describes the amount of warming in the atmosphere associated with increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) as a result of the anthropogenic greenhouse effect....
by Editorial team · Published July 16, 2020
The greenhouse effect can be explained in several steps. It all begins with the sun emitting electromagnetic waves in form of ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared radiation towards the earth, with a common wavelength of...
by Editorial team · Published July 16, 2020
Current climate change is mainly caused by the “greenhouse effect”, where heat-trapping gases (water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, ozone and nitrous oxide) in the atmosphere cause an increase in global temperature. The effect...
by Editorial team · Published July 16, 2020
The terms “global warming” and “climate change” are sometimes used interchangeably, but strictly speaking they refer to slightly different things. Global warming refers to the warming of the Earth over longer time periods. Due...