Prolonged droughts, wildfires and water shortages. Torrential downpours that overwhelm dams and cause catastrophic flooding.

The relationship between topography and the terrestrial water cycle has been documented for thousands of years, yet there is ...

Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible ... an ever-increasing impact on the global nitrogen cycle. Human activities, such as making fertilizers and ...

weather systems and atmospheric dynamics climate processes and feedbacks atmospheric composition and cycles climate history and paleoclimatology hydrology and water cycle Elective courses can be used ...

The six study lines are as follows: aerosol physics, geophysics of the hydrosphere, meteorology, biosphere-atmosphere cycles, remote sensing and atmospheric chemistry and analysis. The Master's ...

Dead organisms are eaten by decomposers and carbon in their bodies is returned to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. In some conditions decomposition is blocked. The plant and animal material may ...