Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis Volume 1 - The Physical Climate /

Climate Change Science: A Modern Synthesis introduces the principles of climate change science, emphasizing the empirical evidence for climate change and a warming world. Divided into eleven sections, this comprehensive book opens with an introduction to basic scientific principles including the sci...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Farmer, G. Thomas (Autor), Cook, John (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Temas:
Environment.
Climatology.
Earth sciences.
Continuing education.
Geography.
Chemistry, Organic.
Environmental Sciences.
Climate Sciences.
Earth Sciences.
Lifelong Learning.
Organic Chemistry.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I - Scientific principles and the scientific method
  • 2. scientific principles
  • 3. The scientific method and its use
  • Part II - Overview of climate change science
  • 4. Earth's energy budget
  • 5. Climate change trends
  • 6. Earth's surface temperature
  • 7. Climate change science as earth science
  •  Part III - Earth's atmosphere
  • 8. Introduction to earth's atmosphere
  • 9. Carbon dioxide, other greenhouse gases, and the carbon cycle
  • 10. Earth's albedo, radiative forcing and climate change
  • 11. Atmospheric circulation and climate
  • Part IV - The world ocean and climate
  • 12. The world ocean
  • 13. Ocean heat content and rising sea level
  •  Part V - Earth's cryosphere and recent climate history
  • 14. Glaciers and the latest ice age
  • 15. Permafrost and methane
  •  Part VI - Land and its climates
  • 16. Continents and mountain ranges
  • 17. Climate classifications
  • Part VII - Climate models
  • 18. Types of models.- Part VIII - Climates of the past (paleoclimatology)
  • 19. Paleoclimates and proxies
  • 20. Climates of the recent past
  • 21. Pleistocene glaciations
  • Part IX - Future climates and mitigation
  • 22. Projections of future climates
  • Part X - Skeptics and deniers of global warming
  • 23. Understanding climate denial
  • Part XI - Specific declarations against climate science and climate scientists
  • 24. Rebuttals to climate myths
  • Index.

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