Beyond Global Warming (eBook)

How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change

Anthony J. Broccoli, Syukuro Manabe (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18516-3 (ISBN)

Infos

From Nobel Prize winner Syukuro Manabe and Anthony Broccoli, a definitive account of how we have come to understand the fundamental processes behind global warmingSyukuro Manabe is perhaps the leading pioneer of modern climate modeling. Beyond Global Warming is his compelling firsthand account of how the scientific community came to understand the human causes of climate change, and how numerical models using the world's most powerful computers have been instrumental to these vital discoveries.Joined by atmospheric scientist Anthony Broccoli, Manabe shows how climate models have been used as virtual laboratories for examining the complex planetary interactions of atmosphere, ocean, and land. Manabe and Broccoli use these studies as the basis for a broader discussion of human-induced global warming-and what the future may hold for a warming planet. They tell the stories of early trailblazers such as Svante Arrhenius, the legendary Swedish scientist who created the first climate model of Earth more than a century ago, and they provide rare insights into Manabe's own groundbreaking work over the past five decades. Expertly walking readers through key breakthroughs, they explain why increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide has caused temperatures to rise in the troposphere yet fall in the stratosphere, why the warming of the planet's surface differs by hemisphere, why drought is becoming more frequent in arid regions despite the global increase in precipitation, and much more.Authoritative and illuminating, Beyond Global Warming is an invaluable insider's look at some of today's most cutting-edge Earth science, and a rare window into a brilliant scientific mind.

Autor

Syukuro Manabe is senior meteorologist in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Princeton University and a pioneer in the use of computers to simulate global climate change. Anthony J. Broccoli is professor of environmental sciences at Rutgers University.

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 8 color + 81 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: 3-D general circulation model • Albedo • Amazon Basin • Arctic ocean • Atlantic Ocean • Atmospheric circulation • a very short introduction • Black-body radiation • Brine rejection • Carbon dioxide • carbon emissions • Climate • climate change • climate model • climate sensitivity • climatology • Cloud feedback • CO2 • CO2 Concentration • conservation • convection • Deep sea • Discharge (hydrology) • Drake Passage • Drought • earth • Earth's energy budget • Earth system science • Eddy (fluid dynamics) • emissivity • E. O. Hulbert • evaporation • Extratropical cyclone • Gcms • General Circulation Model • General Circulation Models • GFDL models • global warming • Greenhouse Effect • Greenhouse Gas • greenhouse gasses • Hadley cell • heat capacity • Heat flux • Hot tower • Humidity • ice cap • ice sheet • Instrumental temperature record • Intertropical Convergence Zone • IPCC Fifth Assessment Report • IPCC Fourth Assessment Report • Jean-Baptiste Fourier • John Tyndall • Kirk Bryan (oceanographer) • Lapse rate • latent heat • Mark Maslin • methane • microwave • Middle latitudes • Mixed layer • National Center for Atmospheric Research • nitrous oxide • Norman Phillips • North America • Northern Hemisphere • Numerical weather prediction • ocean current • Oceanic basin • outgoing longwave radiation • polar amplification • Polar regions of Earth • precipitation • pressure gradient • Princeton University • Prognostic equation • radiative-connective equilibrium • radiative equilibrium • Radiative Forcing • radiative transfer • Raymond Pierrehumbert • Relative humidity • Rising sea levels • Rossby wave • Salinity • Sea • sea ice • Sea Level Rise • Sea Surface Temperature • seawater • Semi-arid climate • Sensible heat • Snow • Soil • Solar Irradiance • southern hemisphere • Southern Ocean • Spencer R. Weart • Stefan–Boltzmann law • Stratosphere • subtropics • superstorms • surface layer • Surface pressure • Svante Arrhenius • Temperature Gradient • Temperature record • Terrain • The Discovery of Global Warming • thermohaline circulation • Time Series • Tropical Cyclone • tropics • Tropopause • troposphere • Vapor Pressure • water content • water cycle • water vapor • Weather forecasting • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18516-6 / 0691185166
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18516-3 / 9780691185163