The Earth System notes (3rd edition)

This document is an overview from the 2nd session from the Climate Hydrological Processes course given by Dim Coumou during the master Hydrology at the VU in Amsterdam. The first part is a summary of chapter 3 (Kump et al.) about the Earth System. The second part are notes on the online lecture form David Archer "The Greenhouse Effect". The last part is the summary including notes from the lecture given by Dim Coumou.

Bad-ass 32 pages summary covering: - Global Change warming - Earth systems - Feedback loops, couplings etc. - Global Energy Balance (atmospheric composition, structure, ...) - Atmospheric circulation (including Hadley circulation, Coriolis effect, surface winds) - Global precipitation patterns - Ocean Circulation (gyres, Ekman Spiral, currents, el Nino, ...) - Cryosphere (permafrost, glacier flow, sea ice and climate, ...) - Plate Tectonics (Anatomy of the Earth, sea floor spreading, plates ...

This is the summary of System Earth. It is based on the lectures and the textbook (The Earth System, 1638). The summary also includes the lecture on Ethics and Philosophy of Science.

This is the summary of System Earth. It is based on the lectures and the textbook (The Earth System, 1638). The summary also includes the lecture on Ethics and Philosophy of Science.

This document is an overview from the 2nd session from the Climate Hydrological Processes course given by Dim Coumou during the master Hydrology at the VU in Amsterdam. The first part is a summary of chapter 3 (Kump et al.) about the Earth System. The second part are notes on the online lecture form David Archer "The Greenhouse Effect". The last part is the summary including notes from the lecture given by Dim Coumou.

Bad-ass 32 pages summary covering: - Global Change warming - Earth systems - Feedback loops, couplings etc. - Global Energy Balance (atmospheric composition, structure, ...) - Atmospheric circulation (including Hadley circulation, Coriolis effect, surface winds) - Global precipitation patterns - Ocean Circulation (gyres, Ekman Spiral, currents, el Nino, ...) - Cryosphere (permafrost, glacier flow, sea ice and climate, ...) - Plate Tectonics (Anatomy of the Earth, sea floor spreading, plates ...

Summary of the System Earth course, with images. Mainly written in English (only like 5 sentences in dutch). It contains all the information from the lectures (and some extra).