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Conceptual diagram illustrating how climate change affects human health.
Climate impacts on human health
Conceptual diagram illustrating the process in which wetlands migrate during sea-level rise.
Protecting wetland migration corridors
Conceptual diagram illustrating how sea-level rise floods coastal lagoons, drowns islands, and increase coastal erosion.
Sea-level rise in Maryland's coastal bays
Illustration of flux tower
Flux tower
Illustration of sea-level rise
Climate change: sea-level rise
Illustration of a cirrocumulus cloud, a large, white patch or tuft without a gray shadow. Composed of supercooled liquid droplets (if they freeze, becomes cirrostratus - cirrocumuli are short lived) Each cloudlet appears no larger than a finger held at arms length. It occurs in patches or sheets, organized in rows like other cumulus, but since they are so small, cirrocumulus patches take on a finer appearance, sometimes referred to colloquially as
High clouds: Cirrocumulus
Illustration of cirrostratus clouds, thin, generally uniform clouds, composed of ice-crystals, capable of forming halos. When thick enough to be seen, they are whitish, usually with no distinguishing features.
High clouds: Cirrostratus
Illustration of cirrus clouds, which are characterized by thin, wisplike strands, often accompanied by tufts, leading to their common (non-standard) name of mare's tail. Cirrus clouds are formed when water vapor freezes into ice crystals at altitudes above 8000 meters (26,000 ft). Due to the sparse moisture at a high altitude, they tend to be very thin.
High clouds: Cirrus
Illustration of cumulonimbus clouds, tall, dense, and involved in thunderstorms and other intense weather. Cumulonimbus means
Low clouds: Cumulonimbus 1
Illustration of a cumulus cloud, a cloud with noticeable vertical development and clearly defined edges. Cumulus means
Low clouds: Cumulus 1
Illustration of stratocumulus clouds, belonging to a class characterized by large dark, rounded masses, usually in groups, lines, or waves. Weak convective currents create shallow cloud layers because of drier, stable air above preventing continued vertical development. Vast areas of subtropical and polar oceans are covered with massive sheets of stratocumuli.
Low clouds: Stratocumulus 1
Illustration of stratus clouds, meaning layer or blanket in Latin. Characterized by horizontal layering with a uniform base. Flat, featureless clouds of low altitude varying in color from dark gray to nearly white obscuring the disk of the sun. Essentially above-ground fog formed either through the lifting of morning fog or when cold air moves at low altitudes over a region.
Low clouds: Stratus 1
Illustration of a cloud belonging to a class characterized by globular masses or rolls in layers or patches. Alto,
Middle clouds: Altocumulus 1
Illustration of an altostratus cloud; also referred to as
Middle clouds: Altostratus 1
Illustration of a nimbostratus cloud, a rain cloud characterized by a formless layer that is almost uniformly dark gray, of medium altitude, usually developing above 6500 ft (2000 m). Nimbo is from the Latin word
Middle clouds: Nimbostratus 1
Illustration of a cloud with falling snow
Weather: snow
Illustration of El Nino Southern Oscillation management
El Nino Southern Oscillation management
Illustration of Kyoto protocol sign
Kyoto protocol
Illustration of subtropical estuary base
Estuary 2D: subtropical
Illustration of tropical estuary base with offshore reef
Estuary 2D: tropical with offshore reef
Conceptual diagram of habitats in Temperate Upwelling Ecosystems developed as part of the LOICZ project to look at Land Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone
Temperate Upwelling Ecosystem Habitat Summary
Illustration of a hurricane, or tropical cyclone: a storm system characterized by a low pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and flooding rain. Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is referred to by names such as hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, and simply cyclone. Has counterclockwise rotation in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise rotation in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Coriolis Effect.
Weather: cyclone (S Hemisphere)
Illustration of a hurricane, or tropical cyclone: a storm system characterized by a low pressure center and numerous thunderstorms that produce strong winds and flooding rain. Depending on its location and strength, a tropical cyclone is referred to by names such as hurricane, typhoon, tropical storm, cyclonic storm, tropical depression, and simply cyclone. Has counterclockwise rotation in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise rotation in the Southern Hemisphere due to the Coriolis Effect.
Weather: hurricane (N Hemisphere)
Illustration of a cloud with rain droplets falling straight down
Weather: rain
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