Describe how pollutants are changing

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Assignment Task: Case Study: Atmospheric Processes vs. Humans

Overview: In this last module, we've focused on air pollution, weather, and climate. Write about one of the following.

1. Pick a specific weather event (e.g. Hurricane Katrina). Describe how it formed, its environmental and human impacts, and how events like these might change in a warming climate. In the example of hurricanes, good details to provide are general wind directions from large-scale atmospheric cells (e.g. Hadley cells), wind direction from the Coriolis force, and where hurricanes tend to form.

2. Pick a specific weather feature (hurricanes, tornadoes, etc) and describe how they form, their environmental and human impacts, and how they might change in a warming climate (see info above).

3. Pick a specific air pollutant and describe natural and anthropogenic emission sources, their human impact, and how they are regulated. Additional key information to include is: residence time of pollutant, trends in emissions in US, and any feedbacks to other systems (also a greenhouse gas)?

4. Your choice - can be about policy or engineering or art, as long as it includes a link to air pollution, weather, or climate systems that we learned about in class.

Logistics: Write a 2-page, double spaced, 12 pt font, and short paper. No figures, at least 2 references

Paper Structure:

1. Introduction: One paragraph describing the event or feature or issue.

2. Formation: Describe how these features (or pollutants) form

3. Trends: Describe how these features (or pollutants) are changing and will continue to change in a warming climate

4. Conclusion: Are there suggestions for mitigation or to reduce the impacts?

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