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[2nd ed.]. |
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1 online resource (xxvi, 650 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
World Survey of Climatology |
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World survey of climatology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Future Climate. 1. Seeing further: the futurology of climate -- Section I. The Anthropocene. 2. People, policy and politics in future climates -- 3. Urban climates and global climate change -- 4. Human effects on climate through land-use-induced land-cover change -- Section II. Time and Tide. 5. Fast and slow feedbacks in future climates -- 6. Variability and change in the ocean -- 7. Climatic variability on decadal to century time-scales -- 8. The future of the world's glaciers -- 9. Future regional climates -- Section III. Looking Forward 10. Climate and weather extremes: observations, modelling and projections -- 11. Interaction between future climate and terrestrial carbon and nitrogen -- 12. Atmospheric composition change: climate-chemistry interactions -- 13. Climate-chemistry interaction: future tropospheric ozone and aerosols -- Section IV: Learning Lessons. 14. Records from the past, lessons for the future: what the palaeo-record implies about mechanisms of global change -- 15. Modeling the past and future interglacials in response to the astronomical and greenhouse gas forcing -- 16. Catastrophe: extraterrestrial impacts, massive volcanism and the biosphere -- Section V. Understanding the unknowns. 17. Future climate surprises -- 18. Future climate: one vital component of trans-disciplinary earth system science. |
| Summary |
"The study of climate today seems to be dominated by global warming, but these predictions of climatic models must be placed in their geological, paleo-climatic, and astronomical context to create a complete picture of the Earth's future climate. The Future of the World's Climate presents that perspective with data and projections that have emerged from more technologically advanced and accurate climate modeling. The book is comprised of 18 new and revised chapters that feature reviews of current climate science. The authors are drawn from all over the world and from the highest regarded peer-reviewed groups. Each chapter has undergone major revisions and new content has been added throughout. Authored by the world's leading climate scientists, most of whom are also contributing authors to the IPCC Assessment Reports. More than 200 tables, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs Climate modeling technology is more advanced and precise than it was 15 years ago -- a major implication featured in this new edition"--Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- Forecasting.
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Climatic changes -- Mathematical models.
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Climat -- Changements -- Prévision.
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Climat -- Changements -- Modèles mathématiques.
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NATURE -- Weather.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology.
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Climatic changes -- Forecasting
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Climatic changes -- Mathematical models
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Klimaänderung
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| Added Author |
McGuffie, K.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Henderson-Sellers, A. Future of the world's climate. [2nd ed.]. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, ©2012 9780123869173 (OCoLC)776729389 |
| ISBN |
9780123869579 (electronic bk.) |
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0123869579 (electronic bk.) |
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9780123869173 (cloth) |
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012386917X (cloth) |
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1283347954 |
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9781283347952 |
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9786613347954 |
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6613347957 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000048718252 |
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CHDSB 005985707 |
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DEBBG BV042306753 |
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DEBSZ 367770237 |
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DEBSZ 372744397 |
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GBVCP 785946225 |
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NZ1 14534205 |
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NZ1 15177182 |
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