Climate Change

A Multidisciplinary Approach

Williams James Burroughs

297 pages, parution le 01/05/2001

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Résumé

Climate Change : A Multidisciplinary Approach provides an up-to-date, concise and comprehensive presentation of our current knowledge of climate change and its implications for society. The book begins by giving a balanced coverage of the physical principles of the global climate, its behaviour on all timescales, and the evidence for and consequences of past change. It then reviews how we measure climate change and the statistical methods for analysing data, before exploring its causes and how we can model this behaviour. The final sections discuss predictions of future climate change and the economic and political debate surrounding its prevention and mitigation. This is a valuable undergraduate textbook for a wide range of courses, including meteorology, oceanography, environmental science, earth science, geography, history, agriculture and social science. It will also appeal to a wider general audience of readers in search of a better understanding of climate change.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Boxes
1 Introduction 1
2 Radiation and the Earth's Energy Balance 10
3 The Elements of the Climate 32
4 Evidence of Climate Change 73
5 Consequences of Climate Change 116
6 The Measurement of Climatic Change 139
7 Statistics, Significance and Cycles 175
8 The Causes of Climatic Change 201
9 Modelling the Climate 239
10 Predicting Climate Change 259
Bibliography 277
Glossary 283
Index 293

L'auteur - Williams James Burroughs

Pendant sept ans, le Dr William J. Burroughs a participé, dans le cadre du NPL (National Physical Laboratory, Royaume-Uni), à des recherches sur la physique de l'atmosphère ; il a également été attaché scientifique aux Etats-Unis, Washington DC. Il est l'auteur de nombreux ouvrages sur le climat.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Williams James Burroughs
Parution	01/05/2001
Nb. de pages	297
Format	17,7 x 25,2
Couverture	Broché
Poids	570g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521567718
ISBN13	978-0-521-56771-8