Global climate : current research and uncertainties in the climate system /
Throughout the Earth's history, the climate and biosphere have evolved together through a complex chain of interactions, making possible the extraordinary variety of ecosystems and life. These interactions also largely determine the response of the atmosphere to increasing quantities of greenho...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- What we know about the climate system? A brief review of current research
- Why global warming is a controversial issue
- El Nino: a predictable climate fluctuation
- Climate information systems and their applications
- An introduction to ocean climate modelling
- An introduction to linear predictability analysis
- Carbon cycling over lands and oceans
- Changes in the global carbon cycle and ocean circulation on the millennial time scale
- Understanding future climate change using paleorecords
- The Indian monsoon and its relation to global climate variability
- Interactions between the tropics and extratropics. A bit on theory, results and prospects for future predictability.