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Which factors contribute to sea level rise due to climate change?
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Increased numbers of floods
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Rapid melting of arctic ice
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Thermal expansion and melting of land-bound ice
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Slow sinking of the continents
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Enhanced precipitation
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The green house gas effect can be explained by
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Wavelength dependence of absorption of radiation by GHG
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Ozone depletion in the stratosphere
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The elliptic path of the earth around the sun
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Enhanced reflection of long wave radiation by GHG
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Enhanced concentration of dust and carbon monoxide in the atmosphere
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Because saturation vapour pressure depends on the surface on which it occurs
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Lifting of air masses leads to condensation
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Clouds grow rapidly when ice particles are introduced
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Small drops grow at the cost of large drops
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Mixing of warmer and colder air masses can lead to mixing fog
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Airborne radionuclide concentrations are especially relevant for
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Occult deposition is
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An as yet undiscovered deposition
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Deposition that is not yet fully understood
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Deposition by fog, dew, etc.
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Deposition pollutants attached to aerosols
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For the development of the ozone hole in the Antarctic the following are decisive:
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High CFC concentrations and lack of solar radiation
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High CFC concentrations and temperatures below zero
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High CFC concentration and climate change
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Temperatures below -80°C and little air mass exchange
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the double strategy in Austrian air pollution policy consists of
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Limiting synergistic pollutants simultaneously
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Requiring the pollutants and the affected to contribute to emission reductions
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Increasing stack heights and emission standards
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Limiting emission according to state-of-the-art-technology and to stay within air quality
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An end-of-pipe measure is e.g.:
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Using more efficient technologies
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Implementing an emission trading scheme
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Filter flue gases
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Technological improvements in the process
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Desulfurization of oil
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Present day GHG emissions of the average Austrian are around
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50 t per year
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1 t per year
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100 t per year
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Not quantifiable
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10 t per year
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Climate change does not involve
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Which are not typical effects of mountain valleys or basins?
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Inducing thermally driven circulations
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Strong dispersion of pollutants
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Development of cold air basins due to drainage flow
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Inversions
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Channelling flow
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Stratospheric ozone concentration
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Is falling in midlatitudes in winter, constant in summer
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Is falling worldwide
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Is falling in equatorial regions in winter
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Is falling in midlatitudes in winter and strongly falling over Antarctica
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In the climate debate tipping points are understood to describe
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Points ate which the planet becomes uninhabitable
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Points beyond which positive feedback mechanisms can no longer be contained by humans
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Points of time in policy debate when decisive steps are taken
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Geographical locations where decisive climate process
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Under clear sky conditions in summer ozone levels are especially high in Vienna
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On weekdays
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During traffic peaks
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On Sundays and holidays
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On Mondays
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On Saturdays
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In the early morning
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What is NOT true of radioactive decay
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Is the only way to deplete radio nuclei
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Disappears after 5 half-life times
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Depends only on the radio nuclide
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Is independent of external influences
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Can vary over orders of magnitude
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Which of the following issues is not a mesoscale pollution problem
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The IPAT equation or Kaya Identity can be used to explain
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The impact of population, air pollution and technology on environmental degradation
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The impact of green house gas emission on climate
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The extent to which ecological boundaries have been crossed
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The impact of world population, affluence and technology on green house gas emission
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The impact of lifestyles on environmental quality and tipping points
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What was the original definition of smog
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A combination of smoke and fog
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High concentration of photo chemicals
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Cigarette smoke
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High ozone concentrations
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Dispersion models typically consists of 3 modules:
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Transport Module, Immission Module, Impact Module
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Meteorology Module, Chemistry Module, Deposition Module
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Emission Module, Transmission Module, Immission Module
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Meteorology Module, Chemistry Module, Transport Module
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Meteorology Module, Transport Module, Deposition Module
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Trajectories are an important part of which kind of dispersion models?
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Gaussian models
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Diffusion models
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Langrangian models
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Richardson models
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Eulerian models
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Near the earths surface temperature increases with height
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When wind speed increase with height
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When wind speed is low and the radiation balances at the surface is negative
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Because the distance from sun decrease
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When atmospheric radiation exceeds terrestrial radiation
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When warm air rises from heated surfaces
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When an inversion break up
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Chronic damage caused by air pollution can be prevented
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Standards expressed in high percentiles
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Limiting maximum concentration
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Short term standards, e.g.: hourly means
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Long term standards, e.g.: yearly means
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In an idealised valley the following local circulations are to be expected in fair weather on the early afternoon
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In order for a cloud to rain, cloud droplets must grow
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through coagulation and coalescence with other droplets
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through freezing and melting
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and rech a size 100 times that a small cloud droplet
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through transpiration and evaporation
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through compression and density increase
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through condensation and diffusion
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Which of the following radiative processes leads to energy conversion?
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Reflexion
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Absorption
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Refraction
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Diffusion
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Concentrations caused at a specific point by a continuous point source vary strongly
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is the bottom layer of the atmosphere in which temperature decreases with height
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is the lower part of the planetary boundary layer
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is the lower part of the stratosphere and characterised by temperature increases with height
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consists of the planetary boundary layer and the turbulent surface layer
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Boundaries of the global ecological system seem to have been exceeded regarding
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climate change, nitrogen cycle and phosphorus cycle
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nitrogen cycle, phosphorus cycle and biodiversity loss
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ocean acidification, nitrogen cycle and biodiversity loss
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climate change, nitrogen cycle and biodiversity loss
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climate change, ocean acidification and biodiversity loss
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The following is NOT correct regarding albedo
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Average over the whole globe, albedo is about 5%
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Albedo is higher for snow than for bitumen
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Albedo is reflectivity averages over all wave lengths
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Albedo is the ration of reflected to incoming radiation
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Albedo increases with the temperature of the reflecting body
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The atmosphere is characterised by
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about 80% nitrogen, 20% oxygen and 1% Argon content
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about 0,03 CO2 and 0,05 water vapour content
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about 80% oxygen and 20% hydrogen content near the surface
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rapid increase of CO2 and decreases of oxygen concentration
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good mixing of gases up to 120km height
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Which of the following does not heat up faster than global average
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Continents
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Arctic
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Alpine region
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Oceans
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In what latitudes do the highest stratospheric ozone concentration occur?
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The declared aim of the policy of high stacks was to
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Enhanced the chimney effect and create higher effective stack heights
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Make use of higher wind speed
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Reduce maximum immissions on the ground
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Delay deposition
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Distribute pollutants over larger areas
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Global temperatures increases over the last 150 years is about
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What process is not part of dispersion of pollutants in air?
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Interception
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Diffusion
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Decay
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Deposition
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Sedimentation
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Clinical studies to determine concentration limits for humans help to
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Replace experiments using animals
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Study exposures under normal conditions
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Understand systematic dose-effect relationships
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Study the effect of high exposures
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What is characteristic of an Eulerian model?
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The limited amount of input data and numerical capacity needed
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A coordinate system that is fixed relative to the earth surface
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The good representation of point sources
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A grid with increasingly smaller dimensions
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What is the dual role of CFCs in the atmosphere?
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Enhanced chemical reactions and produce stratospheric ozone
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Enhanced chemical reactions and destroy tropospheric ozone
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Contribute to global warming as GHG and deplete ozone
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Destroy ozone and contribute to Global Dimming
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Inversions can cause high immission concentrations near the ground
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When pollutants are emitted below the inversion
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Because heating is especially intense in these periods
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When pollutants are emitted into the inversion through high stacks
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Because pollutants are pressed downward
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Sulfates can cover large distances in the atmosphere because
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They are released in great heights
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They are not easily washed-out
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Their lifetime in the atmosphere is long
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They are especially light compared to their size
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What data are not relevant for emission inventories?
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What human impact does not (yet) exceed the resilience boundaries of the global ecosystems?
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Gaussian models for continuous point sources assume that
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Emission occur at least 10 m above ground
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life time of pollutants is limited
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Wind speed exceeds 1 m/s
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Pollutant concentration is uniform within the plume
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Stratospheric ozone concentration
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Is falling in midlatitudes in winter, constant in summer
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Is falling worldwide
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Is falling in midlatitudes and strongly over Antarctica
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Is falling in equatorial regions in winter
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What part of the solar spectrum is primarily responsible for the cancer in human skin?
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UVA
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UVC
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Roentgen waves
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UVB
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Infra-red
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Protections regarding climate in the future do not rely on:
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Assumptions on GHG emissions
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An understanding of radiation
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Assumptions on the development of the world population
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Mathematical models to simulate physical processes in the atmosphere
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Statistical extrapolations of the climate change of the past
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Air flow is influences near buildings
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But the induced turbulence is irrelevant for dispersion
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Up to about 150m behind the building
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The stronger, the smaller the building is
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In the vertical within about 2,5 times the height of the building
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Which is no Green House Gas (GHG
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Carbon monoxide
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Carbon dioxide
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Water vapour
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Methane
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Ozone
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What feedback mechanism is reinforcing (=positive)?
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Increase in CO2, increased biomass, increased evaporation, cooling
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Temperature decreases, more glaciers, higher Albedo
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Temperature increase, increased evaporation, increased cloud cover
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Temperature increase, forest fires, increased Albedo
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Deposition reaches generally its highest values
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Chemical transformation
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Occult deposition
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Sedimentation
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Wet deposition
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Emission reductions necessary to meet the 2°C goal are consistent with
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80% reduction in industrialised and unlimited emissions in other nations
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50% reduction of GHG emissions in industrialised nations
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Full use of conventional and unconventional reserves
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About 1t of CO2 per person and year till 2050 in industrialised nations
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GHG emissions about three times the amount already emitted
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Which is a secondary pollutant?
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Aerosols
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Sulfur dioxide
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Nitrogen oxide
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Ozone
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Expected temperature increases in Austria in the next 20-50 years is about
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Which is not a component of the radiation balance at the earth's surface
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diffuse or sky radiation
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atmospheric radiation
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celestrial radiation
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terrestrial radiation
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direct solar radiation
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The effect source height
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is defined as the sum of stack height and plume rise
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depends on the emitted pollutants
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is equal to stack height for hot effluents
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is near 40 km for stratospheric ozone
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increases with air temperature
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Climate change is scientifically proven by...
increase of global mean temperature
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What is the significance of oceans in the global carbon cycle?
A sink, but may become a source
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What is not part of geo-engineerying?
Substitution of fossil energy sources
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Which of the following pollutants are GHGs? All?
Ozone, carbon dioxide, methane, water vapour
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Radiation balances is clearly negative...
night time, strong wind, fog
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Which of the following radiative processes leads to energy conversion?
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Reflexion
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Diffusion
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Refraction
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Absorption