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🌡️Intro to Climate Science
Key Terms

393 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Climate Science exam

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1.5°c goal

A

Adiabatic lapse rate
Agricultural Policy
Agricultural viability
Air bubbles in ice cores
Air Density
Altered precipitation patterns
Amazon Rainforest
Amazon Rainforest Tipping Point
Amine scrubbing
Anaerobic digestion
Anemometer
Annex I Parties
Antarctic Bottom Water
Antarctic Ice Sheet
Anthropogenic heat release
Anthropogenic ozone depletion
Arctic Amplification
Arctic Oscillation Index
Arctic sea ice
Arctic sea ice decline
Arid climate
Arrhenius Theory
Ash fallout
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
Atmospheric components
Atmospheric composition proxies
Atmospheric gases
Atmospheric moisture
Atmospheric pressure
Atomic oxygen
Attribution studies

B

Beach nourishment
Bicycle infrastructure
Binding targets
Biodiversity hotspots
Biogeochemical Modeling
Biomass energy
Biosphere
Black carbon
Boreal forest dieback
Building codes
Building codes and standards
Bus rapid transit (BRT)

C

Calcifying organisms
Calibration
Cap and trade
Cap-and-trade
Carbon accounting
Carbon Emissions
Carbon emissions trading
Carbon intensity
Carbon offsetting
Carbon pricing
Carbon taxes
Carbon uptake
Carbonate ion availability
Carbonic acid
Charles David Keeling
Circular economy
Clausius-Clapeyron Relation
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
Clean energy transition
Clean technologies
Climate Action Plan
Climate archive
Climate denial
Climate equilibrium
Climate equity
Climate extremes
Climate information services
Climate justice
Climate literacy
Climate mapping