Gordon McBean. Arctic Climate: Past and Present

Wilеy-Blаckwell, 2008, 276 pages Whilst there is now overwhelming evidence that greenhouse-gas pollution is becoming the dominant process responsible for global warming, it is also clear that the climate system varies quite naturally on different time-scales. Predicting the course of future climate change consequently requires an understanding of the natural variability of the climate system as well as the effects of human-induced change. This...

Cambrige University Press, 2005. p. 356. Weaves together climate research with anthropological and archaeological studies showing how climate change has made us who we are today.

WCRP- 132, WMO/TD - No 1526, SPARC Report No 5, 2010, 600 pp. Three-dimensional climate models with a fully interactive representation of stratospheric ozone chemistry — otherwise known as stratosphere-resolving chemistry-climate models (CCMs) — are key tools for the attribution and prediction of stratospheric ozone changes arising from the combined effects of changes in the amounts of greenhouse gases (GHG) and ozone-depleting substances (ODS)....

Second edition, Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. In this internationally acclaimed book, Hubert Lamb explores what we know about climate, how the past record of climate can be reconstructed, the causes of climatic variation, and its impact on human affairs now and in the historical and prehistoric past.

Название: Dynamics in Atmospheric Physics by Richard S. Lindzen. Издательство: Cambridge University Press. Год: 1993. ISBN-0521018218. The following notes have been the basis for an introductory course in atmospheric dynamics which has been taught at Harvard and M.I.T. for the past seven years. The book is intended as a text for first year graduate students in the atmospheric sciences. Although the material in the book is self contained, a fam...

De Gruyter, 2011. - 720 pages Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing the modern world. The chemistry of the air within the framework of the climate system forms the main focus of this monograph. This problem-based approach to presenting global atmospheric processes begins with the chemical evolution of the climate system in order to evaluate the effects of changing air composition as well as possibilities for interference within...

Invited Special Presentation to the Conference Managing Climate Change—Practicalities and Realities in a Post-Kyoto Future, Parliament House, Canberra Australia. APEC Study Group, Australia. April 4, 2005. 18 p. The hockey stick debate is about two things. At a technical level it concerns a well-known study that characterized the state of the Earth’s climate over the past thousand years and seemed to prove a recent and unprecedented global warmin...

Cambridge University Press, 2011, 282 Pages Provides students with a solid foundation in climate science, with which to understand global warming, natural climate variations, and climate models. As climate models are one of our primary tools for predicting and adapting to climate change, it is vital we appreciate their strengths and limitations. Also key is understanding what aspects of climate science are well understood and where quantitative u...

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 2010, 678 pp. - ISBN 978-0-521-86556-2 Key words: Planetary meteorology. Climatology. Paleoclimatology. This book introduces the reader to all the basic physical building blocks of climate needed to understand the present and past climate of Earth, the climates of Solar System planets, and the climates of the newly discovered extrasolar planets. These building blocks include thermodynamics, infrare...

World Climate Research Programme, International Association For Meteorology And Atmospheric Physics, Radiation Commission, 1986, WCP – 112, WMO/TD-No. 24, 60pp. McClatchey R.A., Shettle E., Fenn R., et al. For radiation computations there is a twofold demand for standardized models: First, to test and to intercompare radiation transfer algorithms, and Second, to compute the radiation terms for sensitivity studies in climate research. For the firs...