Observing Global Climate Change

Kyrill YA Kondratyev, Arthur P. Cracknell (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

576 Seiten

2020
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-0-367-57927-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The question of the effect of human activity on the Earth's climate is one of intense interest and importance for scientists, politicians and policy makers throughout the world. However, no understanding of the complexity of the problem is possible without a sophisticated knowledge of the interaction between the anthropogenic effects and the natura

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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.

Autor

Kyrill Ya Kondratyev, Arthur P. Cracknell

Inhalt

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 178 x 254 mm
• Gewicht: 1061 g
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
• ISBN-10: 0-367-57927-8 / 0367579278
• ISBN-13: 978-0-367-57927-2 / 9780367579272
• Zustand: Neuware