Observing Global Climate Change

ISBN: 9780748401246 出版年：2017 页码：577 Kondratyev, Kyrill Ya Cracknell, Arthur P CRC Press

Part 1 Introduction: background the factors involved in climate change natural factors affecting climate change nuclear war and climate on the perspective concept and climate change studies. Part 2 The observed regularities of climate: the CO2 cycle and global-scale climate changes from observational data detecting the CO2 signal a global system of observations. Part 3 The World Climate Research Programme WCRP: fundamental principles of the WCRP the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment GEWEX. Part 4 Principal climatically-important processes: cloudiness and radiation processes in the ocean the Arctic, the Antarctic and climate land surface processes optically-active minor gaseous compounds aerosols and climate solar-terrestrial interrelations development, verification and application of climate models the comparative climatology of planets. Part 5 The internal variability of the climate system: climate diagnostics the theory of short-period climate changes the sections programme the world ocean and climate nested climate models. Part 6 External impacts on the climactic system: CO2 and climate the multifaceted nature of the atmospheric greenhouse effect volcanoes and climate. Part 7 Conclusion.