Observing Global Climate Change

✍ Scribed by Cracknell, Arthur P.; Kondratʹev, Kirill Jakovlevič

• Publisher: CRC Press;Taylor and Francis
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 577
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collaborative book aims to offer a comprehensive introduction to global climate, the way it is currently changing, the role of earth, air and satellite observation and monitoring, and subsequent climate modelling. It focuses on the interaction between natural and anthropogenic human- made change factors. The book emphasizes the importance of capturing climatic data and the use of that data in computer-based climatic modelling

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Part 1 Introduction: background
the factors involved in climate change
natural factors affecting climate change
nuclear war and climate
on the perspective concept and climate change studies. Part 2 The observed regularities of climate: the CO2 cycle and global-scale climate changes from observational data
detecting the CO2 signal
a global system of observations. Part 3 The World Climate Research Programme WCRP: fundamental principles of the WCRP
the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment GEWEX. Part 4 Principal climatically-important processes: cloudiness and radiation
processes in the ocean
the Arctic, the Antarctic and climate
land surface processes
optically-active minor gaseous compounds
aerosols and climate
solar-terrestrial interrelations
development, verification and application of climate models
the comparative climatology of planets. Part 5 The internal variability of the climate system: climate diagnostics
the theory of short-period climate changes
the sections programme
the world ocean and climate
nested climate models. Part 6 External impacts on the climactic system: CO2 and climate
the multifaceted nature of the atmospheric greenhouse effect
volcanoes and climate. Part 7 Conclusion.

✦ Subjects

Atmosphäre.;Klimaänderung.;Kohlendioxid.;Klimaänderung ; SWD-ID: 41641991