Modern science of climate changes - Njau, Ernest C. (Nova Science Publishers, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
""MODERN SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGES ""; ""MODERN SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGES ""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ""; ""ABBREVIATIONS ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""1.1. THE EARTHâ€?S ATMOSPHERE ""; ""1.2. WEATHER ""; ""1.3. WEATHER FORECASTING ""; ""1.4. CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE ""; ""1.5. GLOBAL WARMING ""; ""1.6. GLOBAL WARMING AND ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE ""; ""BASIC SCIENCE ON WHICH THE CLIMATE SYSTEM OPERATES ""; ""2.1. STRUCTURE AND MOTIONS OF THE CLIMATE SYSTEM ""; ""2.2. ENERGY INPUT AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE CRUST-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM ""
""2.3. GENERAL CIRCULATIONS OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEANS """"2.4. ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCES ON THE CLIMATE SYSTEM""; ""SOLAR ACTIVITY ""; ""3.1. INTRODUCTION ""; ""3.2. HOW SOLAR ACTIVITY IS MEASURED""; ""3.3. THE SOLAR WIND ""; ""3.4. SOLAR CYCLES ""; ""3.5. MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATION OF SOLAR ACTIVITY ""; ""HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGES UP TO 1990S ""; ""4.1. INTRODUCTION ""; ""4.2. SCIENCE BASED MOSTLY ON THE EARTHâ€?S ORBITAL GEOMETRY ""; ""4.3. SCIENCE BASED ON DIRECT EFFECTS OF SOLAR ACTIVITY ""
""4.4. SCIENCE BASED ON INDIRECT EFFECTS OF SOLAR ACTIVITY """"4.5. SCIENCE BASED ON VOLCANIC ACTIVITY ""; ""4.6. SCIENCE BASED ON HUMAN ACTIVITIES ""; ""MODERN SCIENCE OF NATURAL CLIMATE CHANGES ""; ""5.1. INTRODUCTION ""; ""5.2. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW SCIENCE ""; ""5.2.1. Establishment Based on Frequency-domain Analysis ""; ""5.2.2. Establishment Based on Stationary Heat/temperature Conditions ""; ""5.2.3. Establishment Based on Stationary Frequency Conditions ""; ""5.3. SOLAR WIND AND SOLAR ACTIVITY INFLUENCES ON THE TROPOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION ""
""5.4. records-based dominance of solar activity on climate changes """"5.5. causes of rapid climate changes ""; ""5.6. relation between periods of isrc cycles and amplitude of associated sas temperature oscillations ""; ""5.7 prediction of future global temperature variations using equation (5.18) ""; ""5.8 actual shapes of terrestrial temperature variation patterns associated with cyclic variations in incident solar energy ""; ""5.9 the ozone hole and solar activity ""; ""modern science of human-induced climate changes ""; ""6.1. introduction ""