Climate Change
Climate Change
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USDProviding 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.
- Each chapter ends with review questions to allow readers to test own understanding of topics covered
- Considers climate change in terms of physical and social sciences, providing a balanced approach to the current debates
- Contains the latest information, including analysis of the conclusions of the IPCC fourth assessment review
- Time series are presented in a standardised form facilitating easy extraction of principal features of extensive time series
Reviews & endorsements
"...an excellent synthesis of current knowledge of the climate system and past and present climates. ... This book will become an oft-cited reference for climate researchers and students, and should be essential reading for politicians and managers involved in issues of climate change. ...presents the basics surrounding climate change in a simple way while pointing out the complexity of climate-data collection, processing, and interpretation. Burroughs must be congratulated on this achievement. This new edition gives readers an up-to-date and appealing reference that provides a scholarly foundation for improving our understanding of climate change and its future economic and political implications." - Raphael Wust, Oceanography
Praise of the First Edition: "The book is best appreciated by those with an understanding of science, particularly earth sciences, and will be of interest to many following the climate change discussions." American Meteorological Society, October 2001
"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 nonmathematical manner." American Meteorlogical Society, June 2002
Product details
January 2008Adobe eBook Reader
9780511368226
0 pages
0kg
29 exercises
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Radiation and the Earth's energy balance
- 3. The elements of the climate
- 4. The measurement of climate change
- 5. Statistics, significance and cycles
- 6. The natural causes of climate change
- 7. Human activities
- 8. Evidence of climate change
- 9. Consequences of climate change
- 10. Modelling the climate
- 11. Predicting climate change
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index.
