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

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Farmer, G. Thomas (Συγγραφέας), Cook, John (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Climate change.; Organic chemistry.; Earth sciences.; Geography.; Lifelong learning.; Adult education.; Environment, general.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Earth Sciences, general.; Lifelong Learning/Adult Education.; Geography, general.; Organic Chemistry.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.