Climate variability and extremes during the past 100 years
[Book]
/ Stefan Breonnimann ... [et al.], editors
[Dordrecht]
: Springer,
, c2008.
xv, 361 p. , ill. (some col.) , 24 cm.
(Advances in global change research
; v. 33)
Electronic
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A focus on climate during the past 100 years / S. Breonnimann ... [et al.] -- From the bottom to the stratosphere : arctic climate features as seen from the First International Polar Year (1882-1883) until the end of World War II / C. Leudecke -- Arctic sea ice data sets in the context of climate change during the 20th century / G.V. Alekseev ... [et al.] -- The evolving SST record from ICOADS / S.D. Woodruff ... [et al.] -- Upper-air temperature trends : current problems and some recent results / A.M. Sterin, V.M.Khan, and K.G. Rubinshtein -- Atmospheric reanalyses and climate variations / S. Uppala ... [et al.] -- Constructing climate quality atmospheric temperatures from satellite microwave measurements / C.A. Mears -- Total ozone observations during the past 80 years / S. Breonnimann ... [et al.] -- Arctic sea ice variability during the last half century / J. Stroeve and W. Maslowski -- Decadal changes in surface radiative fluxes and their role in global climate change / M. Wild -- Observed interdecadal changes in cloudiness : real or spurious? / J.R. Norris -- The role of land-atmosphere interactions for climate variability in Europe / S.I. Seneviratne and R. Steockli -- Aerosol effects on precipitation locally and globally / U. Lohmann -- Human activity and climate change in Africa / H. Paeth -- Impacts of climate variability, trends and NAO on 20th century European plant phenology / A. Menzel, N. Estrella, and C. Schleip -- Summer heat waves in Western Europe, their past change and future projections / P.M. Della-Marta and M. Beniston -- Distribution changes of seasonal mean temperature in observations and climate change scenarios / S.C. Scherrer, M.A. Liniger, and C. Appenzeller -- Long-term tropospheric ozone trends : a critical review / J. Staehelin and C. Schnadt Poberaj -- Simulation of long-term evolution of stratospheric dynamics and chemistry : role of natural and anthropogenic forcings / M. Dameris and R. Deckert -- Dynamical changes in the arctic and antarctic stratosphere during spring / U. Langematz and M. Kunze -- Creating knowledge from the confrontation of observations and models : the case of stratospheric ozone / G.P. Brasseur -- Response of the earth's atmosphere to the solar irradiance variability / E. Rozanov, T. Egorova, and W. Schmutz -- Stratospheric ozone variations caused by solar proton events between 1963 and 2005 / C.H. Jackman and E.L. Fleming -- Sunspots, the QBO, and the stratosphere in the north polar region : an update / K. Labitzke, M. Kunze, and S. Breonnimann.
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