They also research the relationship between the atmosphere and Earth’s climates, oceans, and biological life. Research meteorologists cover several subdisciplines of meteorology to include: climate modeling, remote sensing, air quality, atmospheric physics, and climate change. They often focus on atmospheric research or operational weather forecasting. Meteorologists use scientific principles to observe, explain, and forecast our weather. Meteorology focuses on the lower parts of the atmosphere, primarily the troposphere, where most weather takes place. Aeronomy is the study of the upper parts of the atmosphere, where unique chemical and physical processes occur. Climatology focuses on how atmospheric changes define and alter the world’s climates. Climatology and aeronomy are also subdisciplines of the atmospheric sciences. A subdiscipline is a specialized field of study within a broader subject or discipline. Meteorology is a sub discipline of the atmospheric sciences, a term that covers all studies of the atmosphere. ![]() Gravity keeps the atmosphere from expanding much farther. Earth’s atmosphere is roughly 100 to 125 kilometers (65-75 miles) thick. The atmosphere is the gaseous layer of the physical environment that surrounds a planet. After the Stone Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, this is the age of Rare Earth.Ĭopublished with Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna on the occasion of the exhibition “Rare Earth,” February 19–May 31, 2015, with works by Iain Ball, Erick Beltrán, Julian Charriere, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Camille Henrot, Roger Hiorns, Marguerite Humeau, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Oliver Laric, Ursula Mayer, The Otolith Group, Katie Paterson, Charles Stankievech, Suzanne Treister, Ai Weiwei, Guan Xiao, Arseniy Zhilyaev.Meteorology is the study of the atmosphere, atmospheric phenomena, and atmospheric effects on our weather. It may seem that we dream the contemporary into existence, but perhaps rare earth elements are dreaming through us. ![]() While we may design our technologies, these tools and weapons shape us in turn. Rare Earth grounds our strange, seemingly weightless cultural moment. Consequently, rare earth elements play an increasing role in global affairs and power inventions that facilitate our changing self-image-giving birth to today’s emergent myths and identities. Often described as conflict materials due to the limited number of easily accessible mines, they are also integral to weapon systems used for cyber-warfare, medical technologies (including MRI scanning equipment), hybrid vehicles, wind turbines, and other green energy applications. ![]() Rare earth elements are the game-changing foundation of our most powerful innovations, are fundamental to contemporary accoutrements such as mobile phones, iPods and iPads, liquid crystal displays, LEDs, light bulbs, CDs and DVDs. Exploring how today’s myths, identities, and cosmologies relate to current advances in technology-through reference to the material basis to our most developed weapons and tools a class of seventeen rare earth elements from the periodic table- Rare Earth challenges the rhetoric of immateriality associated with our hypermodern condition. Rare Earth is an attempt to define the spirit of an age.
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