Climate and Climate Change
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2011
367 pages
978-1-61530-388-5 (ISBN)
Description
As a fixture in recent headlines, the Earth's climate has commanded much attention. While environmental and atmospheric conditions in large part determine the climate of a region, the impact of human activity has increasingly become a significant factor a
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John P. Rafferty
Climate and Climate Change
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Content
- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 CLIMATE
- SOLAR RADIATION AND TEMPERATURE
- THE DISTRIBUTION OF RADIANT ENERGY FROM THE SUN
- THE EFFECTS OF THE ATMOSPHERE
- AVERAGE RADIATION BUDGETS
- SURFACE-ENERGY BUDGETS
- TEMPERATURE
- THE GLOBAL VARIATION OF MEAN TEMPERATURE
- DIURNAL, SEASONAL, AND EXTREME TEMPERATURES
- TEMPERATURE VARIATION WITH HEIGHT
- CIRCULATION, CURRENTS, AND OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION
- SHORT-TERM TEMPERATURE CHANGES
- ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY AND PRECIPITATION
- ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY
- PRECIPITATION
- ATMOSPHERIC PRESS URE AND WIND
- ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
- WIND
- MONSOONS
- UPPER-LEVEL WINDS
- CHAPTER 2 CLIMATIC CLASSIFICATION
- APPROACHES TO CLIMATIC CLASSIFICATION
- GENETIC CLASSIFICATIONS
- EMPIRICAL CLASSIFICATIONS
- THE WORLD DISTRIBUTION OF MAJOR CLIMATIC TYPES
- TYPE A CLIMATES
- TYPE B CLIMATES
- TYPE C AND D CLIMATES
- TYPE E CLIMATES
- TYPE H CLIMATES
- CHAPTER 3 CLIMATE AND LIFE
- THE GAIA HYPOTHESIS
- THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE AND THE ATMOSPHERE
- THE ROLE OF THE BIOSPHERE IN THE EARTH-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM
- THE BIOSPHERE AND EARTH'S ENERGY BUDGET
- THE CYCLING OF BIOGENIC ATMOSPHERIC GASES
- BIOSPHERE CONTROLS ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE ATMOSPHERE
- BIOSPHERE CONTROLS ON THE PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER
- BIOSPHERE CONTROLS ON MAXIMUM TEMPERATURES BY EVAPORATION AND TRANSPIRATION
- BIOSPHERE CONTROLS ON MINIMUM TEMPERATURES
- CLIMATE AND CHANGES IN THE ALBEDO OF THE SURFACE
- THE EFFECT OF VEGETATION PATCHINESS ON MESOSCALE CLIMATES
- BIOSPHERE CONTROLS ON SURFACE FRICTION AND LOCALIZED WINDS
- BIOSPHERE IMPACTS ON PRECIPITATION PROCESSES
- CLIMATE, HUMANS, AND HUMAN AFFAIRS
- CHAPTER 4 CLIMATE CHANGE
- THE EARTH SYSTEM
- EVIDENCE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
- CAUSES OF CLIMATE CHANGE
- SOLAR VARIABILITY
- VOLCANIC ACTIVITY
- TECTONIC ACTIVITY
- ORBITAL (MILANKOVITCH) VARIATIONS
- GREENHOUSE GASES
- FEEDBACK WITHIN THE EARTH SYSTEM
- HUMAN ACTIVITIES
- CLIMATE CHANGE WITHIN A HUMAN LIFE SPAN
- SEASONAL VARIATION
- INTERANNUAL VARIATION
- DECADAL VARIATION
- CLIMATE CHANGE SINCE THE EMERGENCE OF CIVILIZATION
- CENTENNIAL-SCALE VARIATION
- MILLENNIAL AND MULTIMILLENNIAL VARIATION
- CLIMATE CHANGE SINCE THE EMERGENCE OF HUMANS
- RECENT GLACIAL AND INTERGLACIAL PERIODS
- GLACIAL AND INTERGLACIAL CYCLES OF THE PLEISTOCENE
- THE LAST GREAT COOLING
- CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH GEOLOGIC TIME
- CENOZOIC CLIMATES
- PHANEROZOIC CLIMATES
- THE CLIMATES OF EARLY EARTH
- ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGES IN EARTH HISTORY
- CHAPTER 5 GLOBAL WARMING
- CAUSES OF GLOBAL WARMING
- THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT
- RADIATIVE FORCING
- THE INFLUENCES OF HUMAN ACTIVITY ON CLIMATE
- NATURAL INFLUENCES ON CLIMATE
- FEEDBACK MECHANISMS AND CLIMATE SENSITIVITY
- CLIMATE RESEARCH
- MODERN OBSERVATIONS
- PREHISTORICAL CLIMATE RECORDS
- THEORETICAL CLIMATE MODELS
- POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING
- SIMULATIONS OF FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE
- ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING
- SOCIOECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL WARMING
- GLOBAL WARMING AND PUBLIC POLICY
- THE IPCC AND THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS
- THE UN FRAMEWORK CONVENTION AND THE KYOTO PROTOCOL
- FUTURE CLIMATE-CHANGE POLICY
- PUBLIC AWARENESS AND ACTION
- GREEN ARCHITECTURE
- ELECTRIC AND HYBRID VEHICLES
- BIOFUELS
- CONCLUSION
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- CLIMATE
- CLIMATIC CLASSIFICATION
- CLIMATE AND LIFE
- CLIMATE CHANGE
- GLOBAL WARMING SCIENCE
- GLOBAL WARMING POLICY
- INDEX
- BACK COVER
