Jason Smerdon

Climate Change

The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition of Climate Change is an accessible and comprehensive guide to the science behind global warming. Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon provide a broad, informative introduction to the science that underlies our understanding of the climate system and the effects of human activity on the warming of our planet.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• second edition
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 179mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1410g
• ISBN-13: 9780231172837
• ISBN-10: 0231172834
• Artikelnr.: 50906603

Autorenporträt

Edmond A. Mathez and Jason E. Smerdon

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Prologue
Part I. The Climate System
1. The Atmosphere
2. The World Ocean
3. Ocean¿Atmosphere Interactions
4. The Carbon Cycle and How It Influences Climate
Part II. Climate Change and Its Drivers
5. The Concept of Radiation Balance, a Scientific Framework for Thinking
About Climate Change
6. Radiative Forcing, Feedbacks, and Some Other Characteristics of the
Climate System
7. Learning from the Climate of the Distant Past
Part III. Consequences of Climate Change
8. The Climate of the Recent Past and Impacts on Human History
9. Observing the Change
10. Greenland, Antarctica, and Sea-Level Rise
Part IV. The Future
11. Climate Models and the Future
12. Climate Change Risk in an Unknowable Future
13. Energy and the Future
Epilogue
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index