Global Carbon Cycle (eBook)

David Archer (Autor)

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2010
216 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3707-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A must-have introduction to this fundamental driver of the climate systemThe Global Carbon Cycle is a short introduction to this essential geochemical driver of the Earth's climate system, written by one of the world's leading climate-science experts. In this one-of-a-kind primer, David Archer engages readers in clear and simple terms about the many ways the global carbon cycle is woven into our climate system. He begins with a concise overview of the subject, and then looks at the carbon cycle on three different time scales, describing how the cycle interacts with climate in very distinct ways in each. On million-year time scales, feedbacks in the carbon cycle stabilize Earth's climate and oxygen concentrations. Archer explains how on hundred-thousand-year glacial/interglacial time scales, the carbon cycle in the ocean amplifies climate change, and how, on the human time scale of decades, the carbon cycle has been dampening climate change by absorbing fossil-fuel carbon dioxide into the oceans and land biosphere. A central question of the book is whether the carbon cycle could once again act to amplify climate change in centuries to come, for example through melting permafrost peatlands and methane hydrates.The Global Carbon Cycle features a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, and explanations of equations, as well as a forward-looking discussion of open questions about the global carbon cycle.

Autor

David Archer is professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate and Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, and the coauthor of The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Primers in Climate
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Primers in Climate
• Zusatzinfo: 25 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Abrupt climate change • acid rain • Activity Coefficient • Airborne fraction • Albedo • Alkalinity • Anthropocene • archaea • atmospheric chemistry • Atmospheric Methane • bicarbonate • biochemistry • Biological Pump • biosphere • Calcite • Calculation • Carbohydrate • carbon • Carbon-12 • carbon-13 • Carbon-14 • Carbonate • carbon cycle • Carbon dioxide • carbonic acid • Carbon Sequestration • Carbon sink • Chemical formula • Climate • climate change • climate sensitivity • climatology • Combustion • continental crust • Continental Shelf • Deep sea • Dissolved silica • earth • Earth's orbit • Enzyme • Equilibrium chemistry • Equilibrium constant • faint young Sun paradox • Fossil fuel • fuel • Geochemistry • Geologic record • geologist • global warming • Global warming potential • Greenhouse Gas • Holocene • Hydrate • Hydrocarbon • ICE • Ice Age • ice core • ice sheet • igneous rock • Isotopes of carbon • Laurentide Ice Sheet • Lipid • methane • methane clathrate • Methanogenesis • Molecule • Natural gas • Nitrate • nitrogen • nutrient • Ocean Acidification • orbital forcing • oxidation state • oxygen • Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum • Peat • photosynthesis • Phytoplankton • Plate Tectonics • Radiative Forcing • Redfield ratio • Redox • seawater • Sediment • sedimentary rock • Snowball Earth • Soil • Soil Carbon • solid Earth • Solubility • Southern Ocean • Starch • Sulfate • Surface Water • Terrain • Thermostat • Total Organic Carbon • Water column • weathering • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3707-3 / 1400837073
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3707-6 / 9781400837076