Climate change: a multidisciplinary approach
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| adam_text | Contents
Reviews
of the first edition page ii
Preface to the second edition
ix
1
Introduction
1
1.1
Weather and climate
2
1.2
What do we mean by climate variability and climate change?
2
1.3
Connections, timescales and uncertainties
6
1.4
The big picture
8
2
Radiation and the Earth s energy balance
11
2.1
Solar and terrestrial radiation
11
2.2
Solar variability
31
2.3
Summary
34
3
The elements of the climate
36
3.1
The atmosphere and oceans in motion
36
3.2
Atmospheric circulation patterns
39
3.3
Radiation balance
49
3.4
The hydrological cycle
54
3.5
The biosphere
55
3.6
Sustained abnormal weather patterns
56
3.7
Atmosphere-ocean interactions
61
3.8
The Great Ocean Conveyor
73
3.9
Summary
78
4
The measurement of climate change
81
4.1
in situ instrumental observations
81
4.2
Satellite measurements
87
4.3
Re-analysis work
92
4.4
Historical records
93
4.5
Proxy measurements
95
4.6
Dating 111
4.7
Isotope age dating
115
4.8
Summary
118
Contents
Contents
5
Statistics, significance and cycles
5.1
Time series, sampling and harmonic analysis
5.2
Noise
5.3
Measures of variability and significance
5.4
Smoothing
5.5
Wavelet analysis
5.6
Multidimensional analysis
5.7
Summary
6
The natural causes of climate change
6.1
Autovariance and non-linearity
6.2
Atmosphere-ocean interactions
6.3
Ocean currents
6.4
Volcanoes
6.5
Sunspots and solar activity
6.6
Tidal forces
6.7
Orbital variations
6.8
Continental drift
6.9
Changes in atmospheric composition
6.10
A belch from the deep
6.11
Catastrophes and the nuclear winter
6.12
Summary
7
Human activities
7.1
Greenhouse gas emissions
7.2
Dust and aerosols
7.3
Desertification and deforestation
7.4
The ozone hole
7.5
Summary
8
Evidence of climate change
8.1
Peering into the abyss of time
8.2
From greenhouse to icehouse
8.3
Sea-level fluctuations
8.4
The ice ages
8.5
The end of the last ice age
8.6
The Holocene climatic optimum
8.7
Changes during times of recorded history
8.8
The medieval climatic optimum
8.9
The Little Ice Age
121
122
127
128
139
143
146
148
151
151
154
157
159
163
175
180
185
186
190
191
197
200
200
203
206
208
210
212
213
224
227
231
239
245
247
252
256
8.10
The twentieth-century warming
8.11
Concluding observations
9
Consequences of climate change
9.1
Geological consequences
9.2
Flora and fauna
9.3
Mass extinctions
9.4
Sea levels, ice sheets and glaciers
9.5
Agriculture
9.6
The historical implications of climatic variability
9.7
Spread of diseases
9.8
The economic impact of extreme weather events
9.9
Summary
10
Modelling the climate
10.1
Global circulation models
10.2
Simulation of climatic variability
10.3
The challenges facing modellers
10.4
Summary
11
Predicting climate change
11.1
Natural variability
11.2
Predicting global warming
11.3
The predicted consequences of global warming
11.4
Doubts about the scale of global warming
11.5
What can we do about global warmmg?
11.6
The
Gaia
hypothesis
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
261
268
270
270
272
276
279
282
288
291
294
301
303
304
308
312
318
321
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324
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Contents
Reviews
of the first edition page ii
Preface to the second edition
ix
1
Introduction
1
1.1
Weather and climate
2
1.2
What do we mean by climate variability and climate change?
2
1.3
Connections, timescales and uncertainties
6
1.4
The big picture
8
2
Radiation and the Earth's energy balance
11
2.1
Solar and terrestrial radiation
11
2.2
Solar variability
31
2.3
Summary
34
3
The elements of the climate
36
3.1
The atmosphere and oceans in motion
36
3.2
Atmospheric circulation patterns
39
3.3
Radiation balance
49
3.4
The hydrological cycle
54
3.5
The biosphere
55
3.6
Sustained abnormal weather patterns
56
3.7
Atmosphere-ocean interactions
61
3.8
The Great Ocean Conveyor
73
3.9
Summary
78
4
The measurement of climate change
81
4.1
in situ instrumental observations
81
4.2
Satellite measurements
87
4.3
Re-analysis work
92
4.4
Historical records
93
4.5
Proxy measurements
95
4.6
Dating 111
4.7
Isotope age dating
115
4.8
Summary
118
Contents
Contents
5
Statistics, significance and cycles
5.1
Time series, sampling and harmonic analysis
5.2
Noise
5.3
Measures of variability and significance
5.4
Smoothing
5.5
Wavelet analysis
5.6
Multidimensional analysis
5.7
Summary
6
The natural causes of climate change
6.1
Autovariance and non-linearity
6.2
Atmosphere-ocean interactions
6.3
Ocean currents
6.4
Volcanoes
6.5
Sunspots and solar activity
6.6
Tidal forces
6.7
Orbital variations
6.8
Continental drift
6.9
Changes in atmospheric composition
6.10
A belch from the deep
6.11
Catastrophes and the 'nuclear winter'
6.12
Summary
7
Human activities
7.1
Greenhouse gas emissions
7.2
Dust and aerosols
7.3
Desertification and deforestation
7.4
The ozone hole
7.5
Summary
8
Evidence of climate change
8.1
Peering into the abyss of time
8.2
From greenhouse to icehouse
8.3
Sea-level fluctuations
8.4
The ice ages
8.5
The end of the last ice age
8.6
The Holocene climatic optimum
8.7
Changes during times of recorded history
8.8
The medieval climatic optimum
8.9
The Little Ice Age
121
122
127
128
139
143
146
148
151
151
154
157
159
163
175
180
185
186
190
191
197
200
200
203
206
208
210
212
213
224
227
231
239
245
247
252
256
8.10
The twentieth-century warming
8.11
Concluding observations
9
Consequences of climate change
9.1
Geological consequences
9.2
Flora and fauna
9.3
Mass extinctions
9.4
Sea levels, ice sheets and glaciers
9.5
Agriculture
9.6
The historical implications of climatic variability
9.7
Spread of diseases
9.8
The economic impact of extreme weather events
9.9
Summary
10
Modelling the climate
10.1
Global circulation models
10.2
Simulation of climatic variability
10.3
The challenges facing modellers
10.4
Summary
11
Predicting climate change
11.1
Natural variability
11.2
Predicting global warming
11.3
The predicted consequences of global warming
11.4
Doubts about the scale of global warming
11.5
What can we do about global warmmg?
11.6
The
Gaia
hypothesis
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
261
268
270
270
272
276
279
282
288
291
294
301
303
304
308
312
318
321
322
324
327
333
336
341
345
359
367 |
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