Essay On Climate System

Some of the basic details I would like you all to know about the Earth’s climate system functions are the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cyrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere. These are the five parts of the climate system. The atmosphere is the air that envelopes the Earth’s surface and it is the most dynamic and it changes a lot. It is also the most unstable part of the climate system. The hydrosphere has fresh and salt waters of the Earth. Like lakes, rivers and subterranean waters and oceans. They transport and store energy, break down minerals and store carbon dioxide. The cyrosphere has the ice on the Earth’s surface, like ice sheets, glaciers, permafrost, sea ice and snow cover. Large ice accumulates and melt that process causes variations

The biosphere is where all the living animals and plants live. It also affects the climates surface albedo (the reflection of light). (Ketchum, N.D.) “The first thing you need to know about Earth 's orbit and its effect on climate change is that orbital phases occur over tens of thousands of years, so the only climate trends that orbital patterns might help explain are long-term ones.”(Nelson, 2012). What you might not know and new to learn is that with Earth’s current warming trend that is happening despite the relatively cool orbital phase. You might be surprised to learn that Earth 's orbit around the sun is more complicated than it looks. There are at least three major ways that Earth 's orbit varies over the course of millennia: its eccentricity, its obliquity and its precession. Where the Earth is within each of these cycles it has a significant effect on the amount of solar radiation and thus, warmth that the planet gets exposed to (Nelson, 2012). The energy that cycles through the climate system does this, it starts off by having precipitation from the clouds. Then it goes into the rivers and lakes and it circulates, than in goes into groundwater