Climate Change
List of Terms
(Fall 2006)

This is a running list terms and acronyms that may help you track the never-ending series of acronyms and some concepts that may be new or presented in a new way. Wikipedia is a good place to look them up in addtion to the ever-growing presence and importance of Climate Change information on the web.

 

Uniformatarianism and the idea of No Analog

GCM - Global Circulation Models (Global Climate Models)

WRT - With Respect To

ITCZ - Intertropicall Convergence Zone

Orographic Effect - Rainshadow

Foraminifera )Calcium Carbonate

Forcing Factors

MWP - Medieval Warm Period (Medieval Climate Optimum)

Modulated

Stochastic

Perturbation

Albedo

GHG - Greenhouse Gases

NRG - Energy

SAT - Surface Ari Temperature

SST - Sea Surface Temperature

Hypsomety

Foraminifera

Diatoms

Weathering reactions

The Geologic Carbon Cycle

Fractionation

SMOW - Standard Mean Ocean Water

Oxygen Isotope Thermometry

PDB standard - Blemnite from the Peedee foramtion South Carolina

CZ = Cenozoic

Anthropocene