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Oh, wow.

Oh, yeah. Hello, you're listening to the Science of Everything podcast, episode 90, climate systems.

I'm your host, James Fodor.

So, in this episode, we've got a lot to get through.

I'm going to be talking about the various effects on the Earth's climates,

largely from atmospheric and also oceanic circulations of air and water, and how essentially the

uneven distribution of solar insulation over the Earth's surface gives rise to the patterns

of climactic differences that are found, obviously, across different parts of the Earth's surface.

So in particular, things that we'll look at include geographic effects and seasonal effects on

temperature around the world. We'll talk about air pressure and wind. We'll look at the Coriolis

effect of the Earth's rotation on the motion of air and water over the Earth's surface as they move

around. We'll look at the main driving forces behind atmospheric circulation. We'll talk

about circulation cells and also both high and low atmospheric circulation, and we'll talk

about ocean currents and the role they have to play in determining Earth's climate.

So that might sound like quite a lot, and indeed this will be a full episode.

The unifying theme of this episode, as I've said, is climate systems.

Although we won't explicitly be talking about, say, climate classification or climate change,

I'm going to be discussing the key principles

that determine essentially why climate is the way it is on different parts of the world.

Obviously, at a high level of abstraction, there are many details that we might go into,

but at the end of the day, hopefully you'll have a much better understanding of, you know,

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