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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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