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It is organized around three historical trends that have indelibly shaped the science of climate: the theorization of human difference, empire-building, and industrialization. The geographic focus is Europe and its colonies.
2 dni temu · Climate, conditions of the atmosphere at a particular location over a long period of time; it is the long-term summation of the atmospheric elements (and their variations) that, over short time periods, constitute weather. These elements are solar radiation, temperature, humidity, precipitation.
bled scientists to define climate as an index of averaged weather conditions. Climates were seen as stable, to be described by geographers and studied by statisticians.
Climate is determined by a region’s climate system. A climate system has five major components: the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, the cryosphere, the land surface, and the biosphere. The atmosphere is the most variable part of the climate system.
The history of geography has two main parts: the history of exploration and mapmaking and the development of the academic discipline. Geography, the study of the diverse environments, places, and spaces of Earth’s surface and their interactions.
6 paź 2017 · Climate change is the long-term alteration in Earth’s climate and weather patterns. It took nearly a century of research and data to convince the vast majority of the scientific community that...
1 paź 2022 · What climate is and how it is known is of central concern to historical geography. Through a historical lens, climate no longer appears as the mere ‘statistical description [of average weather] in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years’. 1 Indeed ...
