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The characteristic atmospheric condition(weather) at a particular place or region over time periods of seasons, years, or decades.
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Conversion of land form, a more productive state to one more nearly resembling a desert
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The study of Earth as a system
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An event during which trade winds weaken or even reverse and the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean becomes anomalously warm; the westward moving equatorial current weakens or reverses.
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With respect to global warming, a factor or variable that contributes to global warming, as for example: anthropogenic forcing from burning fossil fuels.
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A landbound mass of moving ice
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slight cooling caused by human release of air pollution particles that reflect incoming solar radiation back to space.
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Trapping of heat in the atmosphere by water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and chloroflourocarbons (CFCs)
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Refers to stratospheric loss of ozone, generally at the South Pole, related to release of chloroflourocarbons (CFCs) into the atmosphere
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