عنوان

Climate change :

شابک

0521690331 (pbk.)

شابک

0521870151 (hbk.)

شابک

9780521690331 (pbk.)

شابک

9780521870153 (hbk.)

شماره

b528079

عنوان اصلي

Climate change :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

a multidisciplinary approach /

نام نخستين پديدآور

William James Burroughs

وضعيت ويراست

2nd ed

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Cambridge University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2007

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xi, 378 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill., maps ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Previous ed.: 2001

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Introduction : Weather and climate ; What do we mean by climate variability and climate change? ; Connections, timescales and uncertainties ; The big picture -- Radiation and the Earth's energy balance : Solar and terrestrial radiation ; Solar variability ; Summary -- The elements of the climate : The atmosphere and oceans in motion ; Atmospheric circulation patterns ; Radiation balance ; The hydrological cycle ; The biosphere ; Sustained abnormal weather patterns ; Atmosphere-ocean interactions ; The great ocean conveyor ; Summary -- The measurement of climate change : In situ instrumental observations ; Satellite measurements ; Re-analysis work ; Historical records ; Proxy measurements ; Dating ; Isotope age dating ; Summary -- Statistics, significance and cycles : Time series, sampling and harmonic analysis ; Noise ; Measures of variability and significance ; Smoothing ; Wavelet analysis ; Multidimensional analysis ; Summary -- The natural causes of climate change : Autovariance and non-linearity ; Atmosphere-ocean interactions ; Ocean currents ; Volcanoes ; Sunspots and solar activity ; Tidal forces ; Orbital variations ; Continental drift ; Changes in atmospheric composition ; A belch from the deep ; Catastrophes and the 'nuclear winter' ; Summary -- Human activities : Greenhouse gas emissions ; Dust and aerosols ; Desertification and deforestation ; The ozone hole ; Summary -- Evidence of climate change : Peering into the abyss of time ; From greenhouse to icehouse ; Sea-level fluctuations ; The ice ages ; The end of the last ice age ; The Holocene climatic optimum ; Changes during times of recorded history ; The medieval climatic optimum ; The little ice age ; The twentieth-century warming ; Concluding observations -- Consequences of climate change : Geological consequences ; Flora and fauna ; Mass extinctions ; Sea levels, ice sheets and glaciers ; Agriculture ; The historical implications of climatic variability ; Spread of diseases ; The economic impact of extreme weather events ; Summary -- Modelling the climate ; Global circulation models ; Simulation of climatic variability ; The challenges facing modellers ; Summary -- Predicting climate change : Natural variability ; Predicting global warming ; The predicted consequences of global warming ; Doubts about the scale of global warming ; What can we do about global warming? ; The Gaia hypothesis

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

This is an updated textbook on climate change for courses in meteorology, oceanography, environmental science, earth science and geography. It provides an up-to-date presentation of current knowledge of climate change and its implications for society as a whole

عنوان

Climate change.

موضوع مستند نشده

Climatic changes

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Burroughs, William James

تاريخ عمليات

20120221023310.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y