Global warming : the hard science /
This text emphasises not only the importance of global warming in the environmental change process, but also introduces students to the science required to analyse these changes accurately.
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Harlow ; New York :
Prentice Hall,
2000.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Harvey, Danny. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Global warming : |b the hard science / |c L.D. Danny Harvey. |
| 260 | |a Harlow ; |a New York : |b Prentice Hall, |c 2000. | ||
| 300 | |a xxiv, 336 p. : |b ill. (some col.), maps ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-330) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a This text emphasises not only the importance of global warming in the environmental change process, but also introduces students to the science required to analyse these changes accurately. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Pt. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 1. Climatic change and variability -- past, present, and future -- Ch. 2. The climate system and climatic change -- Ch. 3. The physics of the greenhouse effect, radiative forcing, and climate sensitivity -- Ch. 4. Factors driving anthropogenic emissions to the atmosphere -- Ch. 5. Observed changes in the climate system and sea level during the recent past -- Pt. 2. Climatic Change: From emissions to climate system response -- Ch. 6. Models used in projecting future climatic change and sea level rise -- Ch. 7. Computation of direct and indirect radiative forcings associated with changes in the concentration of greenhouse gases and aerosols -- Ch. 8. Response of the carbon cycle and other biogeochemical cycles: translating emissions of GHGs and aerosols into concentrations and radiative forcing -- Ch. 9. Climate sensitivity -- Ch. 10. The regional equilibrium response to a doubling of the atmospheric concentration of CO[subscript 2] -- Ch. 11. The transient climatic response and the detection of anthropogenic effects on climate -- Ch. 12. Sea level rise -- Pt. 3. The Science-Policy Interface -- Ch. 13. Scenarios of future climatic change -- Ch. 14. The prospects for surprises. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Global warming. | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Greenhouse Effect. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Harvey, Leslie Daryl Danny, 1956- |t Global warming. |d Harlow, England ; New York : Prentice Hall, 2000 |w (OCoLC)606273076 |
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