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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Global Warming Effects on the Hydrosphere, Hydrospheric Changes due to Global Waming Team 3 S. Kearns Less reflectivity of solar radiation http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/ geog101/textbook/climate_systems/climate_change.html, Less reflectivity of solar radiation http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/ geog101/textbook/climate_systems/climate_change.html temperature increases over permafrost areas causing thawing http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and _impacts/science/findings-of-the-ipcc-fourth-2.html, Ice sheet instability. Recent observations show that meltwater can run down cracks in the ice and lubricate the bottom of ice sheets, resulting in faster ice flow and increased movement of large ice chunks into the ocean http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/findings-of-the-ipcc-fourth-2.html More rapid rate of rise of global sea level, reduce upwelling of nutrients, Reduction of snow covered areas and shrinking of marine cryosphere http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/cryosphere/index.html Causes Freshening of the Arctic Ocean by increased precipitation and runoff http://www.eoearth.org/article/Arctic_climate _variability_prior_to_100_years_BP\, Less reflectivity of solar radiation http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/ geog101/textbook/climate_systems/climate_change.html Reduction of the formation of cold deep water, which slows the global thermohaline circulation http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and _impacts/science/findings-of-the-ipcc-fourth-2.html, Freshening of the Arctic Ocean by increased precipitation and runoff http://www.eoearth.org/article/Arctic_climate _variability_prior_to_100_years_BP\ Causes Ice sheet instability. Recent observations show that meltwater can run down cracks in the ice and lubricate the bottom of ice sheets, resulting in faster ice flow and increased movement of large ice chunks into the ocean http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/findings-of-the-ipcc-fourth-2.html, Reduction of the formation of cold deep water, which slows the global thermohaline circulation http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and _impacts/science/findings-of-the-ipcc-fourth-2.html Causes More rapid rate of rise of global sea level, reduce upwelling of nutrients, temperature increases over permafrost areas causing thawing http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and _impacts/science/findings-of-the-ipcc-fourth-2.html Reduction of the formation of cold deep water, which slows the global thermohaline circulation http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and _impacts/science/findings-of-the-ipcc-fourth-2.html, Freshening of the Arctic Ocean by increased precipitation and runoff http://www.eoearth.org/article/Arctic_climate _variability_prior_to_100_years_BP\ Causes More rapid rate of rise of global sea level, reduce upwelling of nutrients, Reduction of snow covered areas and shrinking of marine cryosphere http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/cryosphere/index.html Reduction of the formation of cold deep water, which slows the global thermohaline circulation http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and _impacts/science/findings-of-the-ipcc-fourth-2.html, Reduction of snow covered areas and shrinking of marine cryosphere http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/cryosphere/index.html Freshening of the Arctic Ocean by increased precipitation and runoff http://www.eoearth.org/article/Arctic_climate _variability_prior_to_100_years_BP\, Reduction of the formation of cold deep water, which slows the global thermohaline circulation http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and _impacts/science/findings-of-the-ipcc-fourth-2.html Causes Decrease the rate at which CO2 is transported to the deep ocean, Reduction of the equator-to-pole temperature gradient http://www.eoearth.org/article/Arctic_climate_ variability_prior_to_100_years_BP\ Decrease solubility of CO2 in water increases with temperature releasing more oceanic CO2 http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:lWncoSk-Lu8J:www.physics1.howard.edu/ ~pmisra/ESSE%252021%2520DC%2520Modules%2520files/07%2520EarthHyd.ppt+global+warming+ impact+on+hydrosphere&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari, Freshening of the Arctic Ocean by increased precipitation and runoff http://www.eoearth.org/article/Arctic_climate _variability_prior_to_100_years_BP\ Causes Reduction of the formation of cold deep water, which slows the global thermohaline circulation http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and _impacts/science/findings-of-the-ipcc-fourth-2.html, temperature increases over permafrost areas causing thawing http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and _impacts/science/findings-of-the-ipcc-fourth-2.html Decrease solubility of CO2 in water increases with temperature releasing more oceanic CO2 http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:lWncoSk-Lu8J:www.physics1.howard.edu/ ~pmisra/ESSE%252021%2520DC%2520Modules%2520files/07%2520EarthHyd.ppt+global+warming+ impact+on+hydrosphere&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari, Less reflectivity of solar radiation http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/ geog101/textbook/climate_systems/climate_change.html Causes Reduction of snow covered areas and shrinking of marine cryosphere http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/cryosphere/index.html, Reduction of the formation of cold deep water, which slows the global thermohaline circulation http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and _impacts/science/findings-of-the-ipcc-fourth-2.html Causes Reduction of the equator-to-pole temperature gradient http://www.eoearth.org/article/Arctic_climate_ variability_prior_to_100_years_BP\, Reduction of the equator-to-pole temperature gradient http://www.eoearth.org/article/Arctic_climate_ variability_prior_to_100_years_BP\ temperature increases over permafrost areas causing thawing http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and _impacts/science/findings-of-the-ipcc-fourth-2.html, Reduction of the equator-to-pole temperature gradient http://www.eoearth.org/article/Arctic_climate_ variability_prior_to_100_years_BP\ Decrease the rate at which CO2 is transported to the deep ocean, Less reflectivity of solar radiation http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/ geog101/textbook/climate_systems/climate_change.html Causes Reduction of the equator-to-pole temperature gradient http://www.eoearth.org/article/Arctic_climate_ variability_prior_to_100_years_BP\