Overview:-

Radiation continued. How can we establish what the atmosphere is composed of, estimate the strength

Physical principles:-

Blackbody radiation, Earth’s basic temperature, Greenhouse effect, Erosion, Potential energy

Handouts:-

Radiation (ppt)

Impacts (ppt)

Erosion (ppt)

Required readings:-

Radiation notes (pdf)

Erosion notes (pdf)

Wallace and Hobbs 2.5, 2.6 (Earth history), 4.3 (Radiation) (more info)

River profile solution (pdf)

Suggested reading:-

Wallace and Hobbs chapter 2 (good intro to Earth system)

Climate and tectonics article Pinter and Brandon, Scientific American (pdf)

Lab:- Erosion in Olympic mountains. 314FluvialLab_2013.pdf

Graph paper: Linear pdf; Semilog (pdf)