Continental climate

Climate Change and its Impact on Water Resources of Nepal Pankaj Karna Department of Hydrology Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India e-mail: pkj_karna@hotmail.com Abstract— Climatic conditions of Nepal vary from one place to another in accordance with the geographical features. The country receives almost 80% of its annual rainfall during monsoon season. The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that

Immense abundance of methane(CH4) from the ocean floor can affect climate globally. The atmospheric methane concentration has gone up by about 150% since 1750. Wide-ranging methane seeps that were identified along the Atlantic Margin contributes to an excellent experiment for this global climate and methane relation. With the operation of multibeam water-column backscatter info, it becomes possible to analyze 94,000 km^2 of the ocean floor to classify hundreds of gas plumes up to 1,700m depth on

Pleistocene. Nonetheless, these external forcings do not act alone and have positive internal forcing feedbacks such as greenhouse gases (Marshall, 2010) and other factors that combine into the resultant net change on the climate. The Milankovitch Mechanisms are central to long-term climate history discourse (Berger, 2013) and incorporate three orbital changes, which are named Precession, Eccentricity and Obliquity. Eccentricity is the first Milankovitch Mechanism, whereby the orbit of the Earth around

you hear the term biome, you think of plants and animals in the same biodiversity. A biome is a group of similar ecosystems that cover a broad area, and maintained under the climate conditions of the region, especially such a community that has developed to climax. Biomes are often defined by abiotic factors such as climate, relief, geology, soils, and vegetation. There are five major categories of biomes on earth. In these five, there are many sub-biomes, under which are many more well defined

valley Forge was named for an iron forge on Valley Creek in Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania. It was not the best place to set up winter camp for the Continental Army, as it was unable to defend southern Pennsylvania at the time. This location also left the vulnerable under-supplied army in striking distance of the British, who were well provisioned and secured in Philadelphia. The area was close enough to the British to keep their raiding and foraging parties out of the interior of Pennsylvania, yet far

what factors contribute to a region’s climate, weather, and to know more specific information regarding the

The boat was being tossed upon the sea. The sails were torn from the harsh and unforgiving wind; the cast about to snap in two. Alfred Wegener was observing his map to see if he was lost. All of the sudden, something clicked. His eyes jotted back and forth on the paper as he discovered that the continents all fit together like pieces of a puzzle. Could the continents have once been connected? Wegener introduced his hypothesis to other scientists, but they rejected this proposal after no logical

inhibitions due to the climate being the driest in the world, which makes it vulnerable to climate change. Australia is home to 10% of the world's biodiversity, and a great number of its flora and fauna exist nowhere else in the world (“Australia-Oceania :: Australia”). Australia is located in Oceania, between the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean (“Australia-Oceania :: Australia”). It is slightly smaller than the continental U.S. and tends to have a generally arid to semiarid climate. Australia has

Any point north of the Arctic Circle or south of the Antarctic Circle will have one period in the summer when the sun does not set, and one period in the winter when the sun does not rise. At progressively higher latitudes, the maximum periods of "midnight sun" and "polar night" are progressively longer. For example, at the military and weather station Alert located at 82°30′05″N and 62°20′20″W, on the northern tip of Ellesmere Island, Canada (about 450 nautical miles or 830 km from the North Pole)

Earth condition is hard to prove, but this theory may explain several different phenomena. However, it is not accepted by all, there is evidence against a snowball Earth as well. Some believe that a snowball Earth would not have been possible in past climate conditions while there are views that defend the idea of more of a ‘slushball’ Earth rather than a planet entirely frozen on the surface. Iridium