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Climate and Global Environmental Change (00 Edition)

by Danny Harvey

ISBN13: 9780582322615
ISBN10: 0582322618
Condition: Student Owned
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Climatic change, now more than ever in this age of global warming, is seen as fundamental to the study of the environment. This text examines the importance of climate as one of the major forcing functions in the global environmental change process. It emphasizes both human-induced climatic change and natural climatic change, providing a comprehensive historical context and important projections for the future. It offers a thorough, up-to-date, critical overview of the physical science behind global warming concerns.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-234) and index.

PART I INTRODUCTION

1. Climate Change and Variability - Past, Present, and Future

2. The Climate System and Climatic Change

3. Factors Driving Anthropogenic Emissions to the Atmosphere

4. Observed Changes in the Climatic System and Sea Level During the Recent Past

PART II CLIMATIC CHANGE: FROM EMISSIONS TO CLIMATE SYSTEM RESPONSE

5. Models Used in Projecting Future Climatic Changes and Sea Level Rise

6. The Physics of the Greenhouse Effect Radiative Forcing, and Climate Sensitivity

7. Response of the Carbon Cycle and other Biogeochemical Cycles: Translating Emissions of GHGs and Aerosols into Concentrations and Radiative Forcing

8. The Regional Equilibrium Response to a Doubling of the Atmospheric Concentration of Carbon Dioxide

9. The Transient Climatic Response and the Detection of Anthropogenic Effects and Climate

10. Sea Level Rise

PART III THE SCIENCE-POLICY INTERFACE

11. Scenarios of Future Climatic Change.

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ISBN:: 9780582322615
Author:: Harvey, Danny
Publisher:: Prentice Hall
Location:: Harlow, England
Subject:: Geography
Subject:: Environmental Science
Subject:: Engineering - Environmental
Subject:: Global warming
Subject:: Climatic changes
Subject:: Global environmental change
Subject:: Climat
Subject:: Changement global
Subject:: Earth Sciences - Geography
Subject:: Environmental Engineering & Technology
Subject:: Environmental - General
Subject:: Environmental Studies-General
Edition Description:: Trade paper
Abridged:: Abridged Edition
Series:: Understanding global environmental change
Series Volume:: 1510
Publication Date:: January 1999
Binding:: TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:: College/higher education:
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 256
Dimensions:: 9.14x6.08x.51 in. .80 lbs.

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History and Social Science » Geography » General
History and Social Science » Politics » General
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Reference » Science Reference » Technology
Science and Mathematics » Environmental Studies » General
Science and Mathematics » Physics » Meteorology

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