Climate Change

Name: Climate Change
Brand: Cambridge University Press
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A Multidisciplinary Approach - 2nd Edition

By: William James Burroughs

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Paperback | 29 January 2008 | Edition Number 2

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Providing a concise, up-to-date presentation of current knowledge of climate change and its implications for society as a whole, this new edition has been thoroughly updated and extended to include the latest information.

The text describes the components of the global climate, considers how the many elements of climate combine to define its behaviour, and reviews how climate change is measured. The author discusses how the causes of climate change can be related to the evidence of change, and modelled to predict future changes.

This book is ideally suited for introductory courses in meteorology, oceanography, environmental science, earth science, geography, agriculture and social science. It contains review questions at the end of each chapter to enable readers to monitor their understanding of the materials covered.

This book should appeal to an audience with a keen interest in all aspects of the Climate Change debate.

About the Author

William Burroughs is a professional science writer, and has published many books on weather and climate including Climate Change in Prehistory, Does the Weather Really Matter?, Weather Cycles, The Climate Revealed , and Watching the World's Weather (all with Cambridge University Press). In 2005 he received the Michael Hunt Award from the Royal Meteorological Society for his work in popularising meteorology.

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'... a recommended read for the informed layman and student seeking a wider background in this topical but complex field.' Grant Bigg, Weather 'The book is well written, contains practically no mathematics and yet manages to explain, in a clear and attractive style, the subtleties of the subject ... I recommend it to everybody interested in the climate of our earth.' Michael Hantel, Meteoroligsche Zeitschrift '... the book enthusiastically achieves its aims of not oversimplifying but explaining the complexities of what is well established and unknown about the climate system for a wider audience ...' Claire Goodess, International Journal of Climatology 'Burroughs is to be congratulated for having written a serious and up-to-date book that competently surveys many highly technical aspects of modern climate science but manages to do so in a non-mathematical manner.' American Meteorological Society

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Reviews of the first edition	p. ii
Preface to the second edition	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Weather and climate	p. 2
What do we mean by climate variability and climate change?	p. 2
Connections, timescales and uncertainties	p. 6
The big picture	p. 8
Radiation and the Earth's energy balance	p. 11
Solar and terrestrial radiation	p. 11
Solar variability	p. 31
Summary	p. 34
The elements of the climate	p. 36
The atmosphere and oceans in motion	p. 36
Atmospheric circulation patterns	p. 39
Radiation balance	p. 49
The hydrological cycle	p. 54
The biosphere	p. 55
Sustained abnormal weather patterns	p. 56
Atmosphere-ocean interactions	p. 61
The Great Ocean Conveyor	p. 73
Summary	p. 78
The measurement of climate change	p. 81
In situ instrumental observations	p. 81
Satellite measurements	p. 87
Re-analysis work	p. 92
Historical records	p. 93
Proxy measurements	p. 95
Dating	p. 111
Isotope age dating	p. 115
Summary	p. 118
Statistics, significance and cycles	p. 121
Time series, sampling and harmonic analysis	p. 122
Noise	p. 127
Measures of variability and significance	p. 128
Smoothing	p. 139
Wavelet analysis	p. 143
Multidimensional analysis	p. 146
Summary	p. 148
The natural causes of climate change	p. 151
Autovariance and non-linearity	p. 151
Atmosphere-ocean interactions	p. 154
Ocean currents	p. 157
Volcanoes	p. 159
Sunspots and solar activity	p. 163
Tidal forces	p. 175
Orbital variations	p. 180
Continental drift	p. 185
Changes in atmospheric composition	p. 186
A belch from the deep	p. 190
Catastrophes and the 'nuclear winter'	p. 191
Summary	p. 197
Human activities	p. 200
Greenhouse gas emissions	p. 200
Dust and aerosols	p. 203
Desertification and deforestation	p. 206
The ozone hole	p. 208
Summary	p. 210
Evidence of climate change	p. 212
Peering into the abyss of time	p. 213
From greenhouse to icehouse	p. 224
Sea-level fluctuations	p. 227
The ice ages	p. 231
The end of the last ice age	p. 239
The Holocene climatic optimum	p. 245
Changes during times of recorded history	p. 247
The medieval climatic optimum	p. 252
The Little Ice Age	p. 256
The twentieth-century warming	p. 261
Concluding observations	p. 268
Consequences of climate change	p. 270
Geological consequences	p. 270
Flora and fauna	p. 272
Mass extinctions	p. 276
Sea levels, ice sheets and glaciers	p. 279
Agriculture	p. 282
The historical implications of climatic variability	p. 288
Spread of diseases	p. 291
The economic impact of extreme weather events	p. 294
Summary	p. 301
Modelling the climate	p. 303
Global circulation models	p. 304
Simulation of climatic variability	p. 308
The challenges facing modellers	p. 312
Summary	p. 318
Predicting climate change	p. 321
Natural variability	p. 322
Predicting global warming	p. 324
The predicted consequences of global warming	p. 327
Doubts about the scale of global warming	p. 333
What can we do about global warming?	p. 336
The Gaia hypothesis	p. 341
Glossary	p. 345
Bibliography	p. 359
Index	p. 367

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