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  • 1. Introduction
    • 1.1. Course Overview
    • 1.2. Where does the energy come from on Earth?
    • 1.3. The Carbon Cycle
  • 2. Groundwater
    • 2.1. Groundwater Systems
    • 2.2. Why water moves beneath the surface
    • 2.3. How we measure and understand water movement
    • 2.4. Groundwater challenges and sustainable groundwater
  • 3. Surface water and Flooding
    • 3.1. Catchment and drainage
    • 3.2. 1D model of drainage into a river
    • 3.3. River flows
    • 3.4. Reservoirs
    • 3.5. Flood waves
    • 3.6. Flooding
  • 4. Cryosphere
    • 4.1. Ice in the polar regions
    • 4.2. The growth and melting of ice
    • 4.3. The extent of sea ice
    • 4.4. Ice sheets and the flow of glacial ice
    • 4.5. Floating ice shelves and the flow of glacial ice
  • 5. Air Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry
    • 5.1. An overview of the atmosphere
    • 5.2. Air pollution
    • 5.3. The chemistry of pollutants
    • 5.4. Aerosols
    • 5.5. Air pollution and climate
  • 6. Global Environment
    • 6.1. Introduction
    • 6.2. Equations of motion on the rotating earth
    • 6.3. Scales of motion in the atmosphere and ocean
    • 6.4. Structure and mean circulation of the atmosphere
    • 6.5. Atmospheric heat transport
    • 6.6. 2-box model for the global heat distribution
    • 6.7. Stommel box model for ocean heat transport
    • 6.8. Shallow wind-forced ocean circulation
    • 6.9. Thermohaline Circulation
  • 7. Ocean Carbon
    • 7.1. How much carbon is in the ocean?
    • 7.2. The Solubility Pump
    • 7.3. The Biological Pump
    • 7.4. The Carbonate Pump
    • 7.5. Future Oceans
  • 8. Terrestrial Carbon
    • 8.1. Plants, Soils and Eddies
    • 8.2. The Methane Cycle
    • 8.3. The Methane Budget
    • 8.4. Methane Sources
  • 9. Polar Case Study
    • 9.1. The Arctic
    • 9.2. The Antarctic
  • 10. Energy Transitions
    • 10.1. Wind Power
    • 10.2. Solar Power
    • 10.3. Energy Storage
    • 10.4. Carbon Removal and Storage
    • 10.5. Heating and Heat Transfer in Buildings
    • 10.6. Heat pumps
    • 10.7. Cars and Minerals

Index

A | C | D | E | H | I | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | W

A

  • Aquiclude
  • Aquifer
  • Aquitard
  • Artisan Well

C

  • Confined Aquifer

D

  • DIC
  • Discharge

E

  • Elevation Head

H

  • Hydraulic Conductivity
  • Hydraulic Gradient
  • Hydraulic Head

I

  • Infiltration

O

  • Ocean Acidification

P

  • Percolation
  • Permeability
  • Porosity
  • Pressure Head

Q

  • Q

R

  • Recharge
  • Residence Time
  • Reynolds Number

S

  • Solubility Pump
  • Specific Discharge
  • Storativity

T

  • Total Alkalinity
  • Transmissivity

U

  • Unconfined Aquifer

W

  • Water Footprint
  • Water Table

By the QES Team

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