Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change
Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change
L. G. Meiro Filho, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
B. A. Callander, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
N. Harris, European Ozone Research Co-ordinating Unit, Cambridge
A. Kattenburg, Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
K. Maskell, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change is the most comprehensive assessment available of current scientific understanding of human influences on past, present and future climate. Prepared under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), each chapter is written by teams of lead authors and contributors recognised internationally as leading experts in their field. Climate Change 1995 is the first full sequel to the original 1990 IPCC scientific assessment, bringing us completely up to date on the full range of scientific aspects of climate change. This assessment forms the standard scientific reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, including policymakers in governments and industry worldwide, and researchers and senior-level students in environmental science, meteorology, climatology, biology, ecology and atmospheric chemistry.
- Scientific study that influences world policy on climate change issues
- Scientific underpinning of decisions made by all countries signed up to the Rio Earth Summit
- THE standard scientific reference for all those concerned with climate change
- Will do better than the original 1990 Climate Change volume, which sold over 15,000 copies
Reviews & endorsements
"...that's the beauty of this book: It tackles technical brain teasers head on, providing a comprehensive review of the key factors affecting climate. Much of it, especially the new data on aerosol impacts, is spellbinding....The Science of Climate Change is a must-read for all researchers--even those who don't study climate. If you want to know what the world's top scientists think about this issue, you have to read this book." Ginger Pinholster, Reaction Times
"This authoritative collection of data, theory, and projections constitute the first comprehensive update of scientific opinion on climate change since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change..." R.M. Ferguson, Choice
Product details
June 1996Paperback
9780521564366
584 pages
279 × 217 × 32 mm
1.83kg
200 b/w illus. 25 colour illus. 50 tables
Unavailable - out of print August 2011
Table of Contents
- Executive summary
- Summary for policymakers
- 1. The climate system - an overview
- 2. Update of 1994 WGI report
- 3. Observed climate variability and change
- 4. Climate processes
- 5. Climate models - validation
- 6. Climate models - projections of future climate
- 7. Changes in sea-level
- 8. Detection of climate change, and attribution of causes
- 9. Terrestrial biotic responses to environmental change and feedbacks to climate
- 10. Marine biotic responses to environmental change and feedbacks to climate
- 11. Advancing our understanding
- Appendices
- Index.
