This analysis compares the temperatures of six different Florida locations: St. Augustine, Weeki Wachee, Stuart, Gainesville, Libson, and Moore Haven. All of these locations vary by latitude and proximity to the ocean (inland and coastal). Based on the many physical geography theories learned in-class so far, it can be asserted that there is typically a clear contrast in annual temperatures between coastal and inland locations at similar latitudes. Indeed, inland locations should have a higher maximum temperature in the summertime when compared to a coastal location at a similar latitude; in contrast, inland locations generally have cooler temperatures in the winter months when compared to coastal locations at similar latitudes. …show more content…
Along most coastlines, land and sea breezes help to regulate temperatures throughout the year. In a system, if there is a temperature difference, heat moves from higher to lower. This concept can be seen as the foundation for the development of local winds. Christopherson and Birkeland (2015) elaborate on this idea: “The different heating characteristics of land and water surfaces create these breezes. Land gains heat energy and warms faster than the water offshore during the day… At night, land cools, by radiating heat energy faster than offshore waters do” (p.151-152). As mentioned in the opening paragraph, these locations not only vary by proximity to the ocean, but they also vary latitudinally. Building off of basic concepts discussed in the text and in class, you would expect to find cooler monthly temperatures in higher latitudes when compared to locations at lower latitudes. This concept can be applied to the locations that are being analyzed in this text: north Florida is latitudinally higher than central and south Florida. In the following section, the data will be analyzed based on the theories discussed in this text thus
Investigating the Geographical Processes that are Affecting the Physical and Built Coastal Environment There are three geographical processes that are affecting the physical and built coastal environment, they are; erosion, deposition, and transportation. Erosion is the group of natural processes, including weathering, dissolution, abrasion, corrosion, and transportation, by which material is worn away from the earth’s surface, this is mainly caused by wind, running water, and waves breaking on the coast. Deposition is the depositing something or the laying down of matter by a natural process. Transportation is when sand is moved along the coast by long shore drift. At North Cronulla beach erosion is evident.
Have you ever wondered why the Tampa Bay area is always so hot and storms every afternoon in the summer time? Living in Tampa my whole life I never thought twice about why every day in the summer time we were hit with an afternoon thunderstorm, it was just common knowledge. Tampa Bay is in Florida, and also known as the lightning capital of the United States of America. Florida is right at the most south eastern portion of the United States and is a peninsula, so the conditions are just right for afternoon thunderstorms. There is much more than just simple evaporation and precipitation going on, there is a list of consistent factors at play that cause the Tampa Bay area to receive these thunderstorms. Some of the factors that cause Tampa Bay to have such a predictable climate are the air masses surrounding the south eastern portion of the United States and cold fronts coming from the west.
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Unobstructed views of the Pacific’s vibrant blue water, unfilled wetlands, open-access to beaches, and agricultural lands that remain untouched are all attributes that make up the iconic, beautiful, and diverse California Coast. The protection and land-use decisions throughout the entirety of the California Coastal Zone is entrusted to the California Coastal Commission (CCC), which is widely considered one of the most powerful land-use authorities in the country.
Weather and climate conditions are one major difference between Key West and Denali National Park. The temperature, or climate, in Key West is almost always hot and has yearly averages from approximately seventy-five to ninety degrees Fahrenheit from January to December. The climate in Denali National Park has yearly temperature averages from approximately nineteen to sixty-seven degrees Fahrenheit from January to December. Key West's highest recorded temperature was ninety-eight degrees in 1997. Alaska is a lot colder and records its lowest temperature at negative thirty-four degrees in 1989. When I traveled to Key West two years ago, I remember that the weather either was bright and beautiful, or rainy with thunderstorms, not much in between. I also remember the air outside always being very humid and hot making me feel uncomfortable. On the other side of the nation we have a completely different climate setting. In Alaska, six out of seven days were overcast and it rained half the time we were there hiking and camping. The near freezing te...
The Sun’s radiation heats the upper atmosphere, sending the energy toward the earth’s surface and finally mixes with the planet’s counter-rotational currents, creating jetstream flows. The winds flow over the ocean’s surface creating friction that spawns chops, pushing up the seas forming perfect bands of open ocean swell. Pushed on by gravitational forces, the swells speed away from the winds that they came from, moving across the deeps until they feel the drag of the shallows near the coast. As the swells rise up out of themselves, they peak, curling into the liquid dreams that we surfers ride (Kampton 4).
Change in water temperature changes the places where grasses are able to grow, when fish and crab feed, reproduce, and migrate ("Chesapeake Bay Program"). The temperature in the bay goes from high in the summer to very low in the winter. During summer, the surface water is warmer than the deeper water, which creates two different temperature layers that actually separate surface waters from deeper waters (“Chesapeake Bay Program”). The temperature layers change the summer dissolved oxygen levels.... ...
Surface current are found in the upper four hundred meters (400m) and makes up about ten percent (10%) of ocean (Briney, n.d.). Surface ocean currents are as a result of friction between the water and atmosphere interface. The wind exerts a force or stress to the ocean surface and causes the water to move. The winds that most affect the oceans’ currents are the Westerlies which produce belts of ocean currents that flow east in the mid-latitude and the Trade winds which generate currents that flow to the west in tropical latitudes. These winds are mainly a result of warm air from the tropics moving towards the poles. The direction of the current is not the same as the direction of the wind but it is deflected at a forty five degree angle. This deflection is resulted from the earth’s rotation on its axis called the Coriolis force/ effect. Coriolis force and constrains by continental land masses cause surface currents to develop into an alm...
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The father of quantitative analysis, Rene Descartes, thought that in order to know and understand something, you have to measure it (Kover, 2008). Quantitative research has two main types of sampling used, probabilistic and purposive. Probabilistic sampling is when there is equal chance of anyone within the studied population to be included. Purposive sampling is used when some benchmarks are used to replace the discrepancy among errors. The primary collection of data is from tests or standardized questionnaires, structured interviews, and closed-ended observational protocols. The secondary means for data collection includes official documents. In this study, the data is analyzed to test one or more expressed hypotheses. Descriptive and inferential analyses are the two types of data analysis used and advance from descriptive to inferential. The next step in the process is data interpretation, and the goal is to give meaning to the results in regards to the hypothesis the theory was derived from. Data interpretation techniques used are generalization, theory-driven, and interpretation of theory (Gelo, Braakmann, Benetka, 2008). The discussion should bring together findings and put them into context of the framework, guiding the study (Black, Gray, Airasain, Hector, Hopkins, Nenty, Ouyang, n.d.). The discussion should include an interpretation of the results; descriptions of themes, trends, and relationships; meanings of the results, and the limitations of the study. In the conclusion, one wants to end the study by providing a synopsis and final comments. It should include a summary of findings, recommendations, and future research (Black, Gray, Airasain, Hector, Hopkins, Nenty, Ouyang, n.d.). Deductive reasoning is used in studies...
The currents at the surface of the ocean are split in to two categories, tidal currents and surface currents. Tidal currents occur around land masses and are influenced mainly by the gravitational pull of our sun and moon. They change rapidly but predictably and contribute to surface currents. Surface currents occur over different areas of earth’s ocean. Two main factors affecting the surface currents are wind and the Coriolis Effect. The Coriolis Effect explains how the rotation of the earth seems to cause a deflection of anything moving above the earth’s surface. It is this effect that causes winds and water in the northern hemisphere to appear to deflect to the right and in the southern hemisphere to deflect to the left. One of the major surface currents is the Gulf Stream. Water in around the Caribbean is warmed by the sun and then carried north and east along the coast North America. These sun warmed waters release their stored energy into the westerly winds and Northern Europe benefits by having a much milder winter than t...
Natural Processes are actions or events that have natural causes, which result in natural events. The three main coastal environment processes that operate at Muriwai are Coastal Erosion, Coastal Transportation and Coastal Deposition.