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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Encyclopedia of global warming and climate change / |c S. George Philander, editor. |
| 260 | |a Los Angeles : |b SAGE, |c c2008. | ||
| 300 | |a 3 v. (liii, 1136, [97] p.): |b ill. (some col.) ; |c 29 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Abrupt climate changes -- |t Adaptation -- |t Aerosols -- |t Afforestation -- |t Afghanistan -- |t Agriculture -- |t Agulhas Current -- |t Air Force, U.S. -- |t Alabama -- |t Alaska -- |t Alaska Climate Research Center -- |t Albania -- |t Albedo -- |t Algeria -- |t Alliance of Small Island States -- |t Alliance to Save Energy -- |t Alternative energy, Ethanol -- |t Alternative energy, Overview -- |t Alternative energy, Solar -- |t Alternative energy, Wind -- |t American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy -- |t American Electric Power -- |t American Gas Association -- |t American Geophysical Union -- |t American Meteorological Society -- |t Andorra -- |t Angola -- |t Animals -- |g An |t Inconvenient Truth -- |t Antarctic circumpolar Current -- |t Antarctic ice sheets -- |t Antarctic Meteorology Research Center -- |t Anthropogenic forcing -- |t Anticyclones -- |t Antigua and Barbuda -- |t Applied Energy Services, Inc. -- |t Arakawa, Akio -- |t Arctic Ocean -- |t Argentina -- |t Arizona -- |t Arkansas -- |t Armenia -- |t Arrhenius, Svante August -- |t Atlantic Ocean - |t Atmosphere, Climate and Environment Information Programme (UK) -- |t Atmospheric absorption of solar radiation -- |t Atmospheric boundary layer -- |t Atmospheric component of models -- |t Atmospheric composition -- |t Atmospheric emission of infrared radiation -- |t Atmospheric general circulation models -- |t Atmospheric Research and Information Centre -- |t Atmospheric vertical structure -- |t Attribution of global warming -- |t Aurora -- |t Australia -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Austria -- |t Automobiles -- |t Aviation -- |t Azerbaijan -- |t Bahamas -- |t Bahrain -- |t Bangladesh -- |t Barbados -- |t Belarus -- |t Belgium -- |t Belize -- |t Benguela Current -- |t Benin -- |t Berlin Mandate -- |t Bhutan -- |t Biogeochemical feedbacks -- |t Biology -- |t Biomass -- |t Blizzards -- |t Bolin, Bert -- |t Bolivia -- |t Bosnia and Herzegovina -- |t Botany -- |t Botswana -- |t BP -- |t Brazil -- |t Broecker, Wallace -- |t Brunei Darussalam -- |t Bryan, Kirk -- |t Bryson, Reid -- |t Budyko, Mikhail -- |t Bulgaria -- |t Burkina Faso -- |t Burundi -- |t Bush (George H.W.) administration -- |t Bush (George W.) administration -- |t California -- |t California Institute of Technology -- |t Cambodia -- |t Cameroon -- |t Canada -- |t Canadian Association for Renewable Energies -- |t Cantor Fitzgerald EBS -- |t Cape Verde -- |t Capitalism -- |t Carbon cycle -- |t Carbon dioxide -- |t Carbon emissions -- |t Carbon footprints -- |t Carbon permits -- |t Carbon sequestration -- |t Carbon sinks -- |t Cenozoic era -- |t Center for Clean Air Policy -- |t Center for Energy Efficiency -- |t Center for International Climate and Environment Research -- |t Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies -- |t Center Science and Environment (India) -- |t Central African Republic -- |t Chad -- |t Chamerlin, Thomas C. -- |t Chaos theory -- |t Charney, Jule Gregory -- |t Chemistry -- |t Chile -- |t China -- |t Clean Air Act, U.S. -- |t Clean development mechanism -- |t CLIMAP Project -- |t Climate -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Climate Action Network -- |t Climate change, Effects -- |t Climate Change Knowledge Network -- |t Climate cycles -- |t Climate feedback -- |t Climate forcing -- |t Climate Impacts LINK Project -- |t Climate models -- |t Climate sensitivity and feedbacks -- |t Climate thresholds -- |t Climate zones -- |t Climatic data, Atmospheric observations -- |t Climatic data, Cave records -- |t Climatic data, Historical records -- |t Climatic data, Ice observations -- |t Climatic data, Instrumental records -- |t Climatic data, Lake records -- |t Climatic data, Nature of the data -- |t climatic data, Oceanic observations -- |t Climatic data, proxy records -- |t Climatic data, Reanalysis -- |t Climatic data, Sea floor records -- |t Climatic data, Sediment records -- |t Climatic data, Tree ring records -- |t Climatic Research Unit -- |t Clinton administration -- |t Cloud feedback -- |t Clouds, Cirrus -- |t Clouds, Stratus -- |t Coal -- |t Colombia -- |t Colorado -- |t Colorado Climate Center -- |t Columbia University -- |t Comoros -- |t Compliance -- |t Computer models -- |t Condensation -- |t Congo -- |t Congo, Democratic Republic of -- |t Connecticut -- |t Conservation -- |t Convection -- |t Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research -- |t Coriolis force -- |t Cornell University -- |t Costa Rica -- |t Côte d'Ivoire -- |t Cretaceous era -- |t Croatia -- |t Croll, James -- |t Cuba -- |t Culture -- |t Current -- |t Cyclones -- |t Cyprus -- |t Czech Republic -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t David Suzuki Foundation -- |t Deforestation -- |t Delaware -- |t Denmark -- |t Department of Defense, U.S. -- |t Department of Energy, U.S. -- |t Department of State, U.S. -- |t Desertification -- |t Desert Research Institute -- |t Deserts -- |t Detection of climate changes -- |t Developing countries -- |t Diseases -- |t Djibouti -- |t Doldrums -- |t Dominica -- |t Dominican Republic -- |t Doris Duke Charitable Foundation -- |t Drift ice -- |t Drought -- |t Dynamical feedbacks -- |t Earth's climate history -- |t Earthshine -- |t East Timor -- |t Ecological footprint -- |t Economics, Cost of affecting climate change -- |t Economics, Impact from climate change -- |t Ecosystems -- |t Ecuador -- |t Edison Electric Institute -- |t Education -- |t Egypt -- |t Ekman layer -- |g El |t Niño and La Niña -- |g El |t Salvador -- |t Emissions, Baseline -- |t Emissions, Cement industry -- |t Emissions, Trading -- |t Energy -- |t Energy, Renewable -- |t Energy balance models -- |t Energy efficiency -- |t Environmental and societal impacts group -- |t Environmental defense -- |t Environmental Development Action in the Third World -- |t Environment Financial Products, LLC -- |t Environmental history -- |t Environmental Law Institute -- |t Equatorial countercurrent -- |t Equatorial Guinea -- |t Equatorial undercurrent -- |t Eritrea -- |t Estonia -- |t Ethics -- |t Ethiopia -- |t European Commission -- |t European Union -- |t Evaporation and transpiration -- |t Evaporation feedbacks -- |t Evolution of the atmosphere -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t FEEM (Italy) -- |t Fiji -- |t Finland -- |t Floods -- |t Florida -- |t Florida International University -- |t Florida State University -- |t Food miles -- |t Food production -- |t Foraminifera -- |t Forced climate variability -- |t Forests -- |t Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development -- |t Fourier, Joseph -- |t Framework Convention on Climate Change -- |t France -- |t Friends of the Earth -- |t Gabon -- |t Gaia hypothesis -- |t Gambia -- |t Geography -- |t Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory -- |t Georgia (Nation) -- |t Georgia (U.S. state) -- |t Geospatial technology -- |t Germany -- |t Ghana -- |t Glaciers, Retreating -- |t Glaciology -- |t Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) -- |t Global Environment Facility (GEF) -- |t Global Industrial and Social Progress Research Institute (SISPRI) -- |t Globalization -- |t Global warming -- |t Goddard Institute for Space Studies -- |t Gore, Albert, Jr. -- |t Greece -- |t Green buildings -- |t Green cities -- |t Green design -- |t Green homes -- |t Greenhouse effect -- |t Greenhouse gases -- |t Greenland cores -- |t Greenland ice sheet -- |t Greenpeace International -- |t Grenada -- |t Gross national product -- |t Gross primary production -- |t Guatemala -- |t Guinea -- |t Guinea-Bissau -- |t Gulf Stream -- |t Guyana -- |t Hadley, George -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Hadley circulation -- |t Haiti -- |t Hansen, James -- |t Harvard University -- |t Hawaii -- |t Health -- |t Heat, Latent -- |t Heat, Sensible -- |t Heinz Center -- |t Historical development of climate models -- |t History of climatology -- |t History of meteorology -- |t Holocene era -- |t Honduras -- |t Hot air -- |t Hungary -- |t Hurricanes and typhoons -- |t Hydrofluorocarbons -- |t Hydrological cycle -- |t Ice ages -- |t Ice Albedo Feedback -- |t Ice component of models -- |t Iceland -- |t Idaho -- |t Idaho State Climate Services -- |t Illinois -- |t Impacts of global warming -- |t India -- |t Indiana -- |t Indiana University -- |t Indian Ocean -- |t Indonesia -- |t Industrialization -- |t Institute of Energy Economics (Argentina) -- |t Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- |t Internal climate variability -- |t International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) -- |t International Energy Agency (IEA) -- |t International Geophysical Year (IGY) -- |t International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) -- |t International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) -- |t International Research Institute for Climate Prediction -- |t International Solar Energy Society (ISES) -- |t International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) -- |t Intertropical convergence zone -- |t Iowa -- |t Iowa State University -- |t Iran -- |t Iraq -- |t Ireland -- |t Israel -- |t Italy -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Jamaica -- |t Japan -- |t Jet streams -- |t Johns Hopkins University -- |t Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) -- |t Jordan -- |t Jurassic era -- |t Kansas -- |t Kazakhstan -- |t Keeling, Charles David -- |t Kentucky -- |t Kenya -- |t Kiribati -- |t Korea, North -- |t Korea, South -- |t Kuroshio Current -- |t Kuwait -- |t Kyoto mechanisms -- |t Kyoto Protocol -- |t Kyrgyzstan -- |t Land component of models -- |t Land use -- |t Laos -- |t Latvia -- |t LDEO Climate Modeling Group -- |t Lebanon -- |t Lesotho -- |t Liberia -- |t Liechtenstein -- |t Life cycle analysis -- |t Lindzen, Richard -- |t Lithuania -- |t Little Ice Age -- |t Lorenz, Edward -- |t Louisiana -- |t Louisiana State University -- |t Luxembourg -- |t Macedonia (FYROM) -- |t Madagascar -- |t Maine -- |t Malawi -- |t Malaysia -- |t Maldives -- |t Mali -- |t Malta -- |t Manabe, Syukuro -- |t Marine mammals -- |t Marshall Institute -- |t Marshall Islands -- |t Maryland -- |t Massachusetts -- |t Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- |t Mauritania -- |t Mauritius -- |t Maximum sustainable yield -- |t Measurement and assessment -- |t Media, books and journals -- |t Media, Internet -- |t Media, TV -- |t Meridional overturning circulation -- |t Mesosphere -- |t Mesozoic era -- |t Methane cycle -- |t Mexico -- |t Michigan -- |t Micronesia -- |t Midwestern Regional Climate Center -- |t Mílankovitch, Milutin -- |t Milankovitch cycles -- |t Minnesota -- |t Mississippi -- |t Mississippi State University -- |t Missouri -- |t Mixed layer -- |t Modeling of ice ages -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Modeling of ocean circulation -- |t Modeling of paleoclimates -- |t Moldova -- |t Monaco -- |t Mongolia -- |t Monsoons -- |t Montana -- |t Montreal Protocol -- |t Morocco -- |t Movements, Environmental -- |t Mozambique -- |t Munk, Walter -- |t Myanmar -- |t Namibia -- |t National Academy of Sciences, U.S. -- |t National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) -- |t National Association of Energy Service Companies (NAESCO) -- |t National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) -- |t National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) -- |t National Science Foundation -- |t Natsource -- |t Natural gas -- |t Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) -- |t Nauru -- |t Navy, U.S. -- |t Nebraska -- |t Needs and wants -- |t Nepal -- |t Netherlands -- |t Net primary production -- |t Nevada -- |t New Hampshire -- |t New Jersey -- |t New Mexico - |t New Mexico Climate Center -- |t New York -- |t New Zealand -- |t Nicaragua -- |t Niger -- |t Nigeria -- |t Nitrous oxide -- |t Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) -- |t North Atlantic oscillation -- |t North Carolina -- |t North Dakota -- |t Norway -- |t Nuclear power -- |t Ocean component of models -- |t Oceanic changes -- |t Oceanography -- |t OECD Annex 1 Expert Group on the UNFCCC -- |t OECD Climate Change documents -- |t Office of Naval Research -- |t Ohio -- |t Ohio State University -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Oil, Consumption of -- |t Oil, Production of -- |t Oklahoma -- |t Oman -- |t Orbital parameters, Eccentricity -- |t Orbital parameters, Obliquity -- |t Orbital parameters, Precession -- |t Oregon -- |t Oregon Climate Service -- |t Oregon State University -- |t Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -- |t Oxygen cycle -- |t Pacific Ocean -- |t Pakistan -- |t Palau -- |t Paleoclimates -- |t Paleozoic era -- |t Panama -- |t Papua New Guinea -- |t Paraguay -- |t Penguins -- |t Penn State University -- |t Pennsylvania -- |t Perfluorocarbons -- |t Peru -- |t Peruvian Current -- |t Pew Center on Global Climate Change -- |t Philippines -- |t Phillips, Norman -- |t Phytoplankton -- |t Plants -- |t Pleistocene era -- |t Pliocene era -- |t Poland -- |t Polar bears -- |t Policy, International -- |t Policy, U.S. -- |t Pollution, Air -- |t Pollution, Land -- |t Pollution, Water -- |t Population -- |t Portugal -- |t Precambrian era -- |t Precautionary principle -- |t Precipitation -- |t Preparedness -- |t Princeton University -- |t Public awareness -- |t Qatar -- |t Quaternary era -- |t Radiation, Absorption -- |t Radiation, Infrared -- |t Radiation, Long wave -- |t Radiation, Microwave -- |t Radiation, Short wave -- |t Radiation, Ultraviolet -- |t Radiative feedbacks -- |t Rain -- |t Rainfall patterns -- |t Refugees, Environmental -- |t Regulation -- |t Religion -- |t Renewable Energy Policy Project (REPP) -- |t Resources -- |t Resources for the Future (RFF) -- |t Revelle, Roger -- |t Rhode Island -- |t Richardson, Lewis Fry -- |t Risk -- |t Romania -- |t Rossby, Carl-Gustav -- |t Royal Dutch/Shell Group -- |t Royal Meteorological Society -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Russia -- |t Rwanda -- |t Saint Kitts and Nevis -- |t Saint Lucia -- |t Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -- |t Salinity -- |t Samoa -- |t San Marino -- |t São Tomé and Principe -- |t Saudi Arabia -- |t Schneider, Stephen H. -- |t Scripps Institute of Oceanography -- |t Sea ice -- |t Sea level, Rising -- |t Seasonal cycle -- |t Seawater, Composition of -- |t Senegal -- |t Serbia and Montenegro -- |t Seychelles -- |t Sierra Leone -- |t Simulation and predictability of seasonal and interannual variations -- |t Singapore -- |t Singer, S. Fred -- |t Slovakia -- |t Slovenia -- |t Smagorinsky, Joseph -- |t Snowball Earth -- |t Social ecology -- |t Soil organic carbon -- |t Soils -- |t Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) -- |t Solar wind -- |t Solomon Islands -- |t Somalia -- |t South Current -- |t South Africa -- |t South Carolina -- |t South Dakota -- |t Southern Ocean -- |t Southern oscillation -- |t Spain -- |t Species extinction -- |t Sri Lanka -- |t Stanford University -- |t Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) -- |t Stommel, Henry -- |t Stratopause -- |t Stratosphere -- |t Sudan -- |t Sulphur dioxide -- |t Sulphur hexafluoride -- |t Sunlight -- |t Suriname -- |t Sustainability -- |t Sverdrup, Harald Ulrik -- |t Swaziland -- |t Sweden -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Switzerland -- |t Syria -- |t Tajikistan -- |t Tanzania -- |t Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) -- |t Technology -- |t Tennessee -- |t Tertiary climate -- |t Texas -- |t Thailand -- |t Thermocline -- |t Thermodynamics -- |t Thermohaline circulation -- |t Thermosphere -- |t Thunderstorms -- |t Togo -- |t Tonga -- |t Toronto Conference -- |t Tourism -- |t Trade winds -- |t Transportation -- |t Trexler and Associates, Inc. -- |t Triassci period -- |t Trinidad and Tobago -- |t Tropopause -- |t Troposphere -- |t Tsunamis -- |t Tunisia -- |t Turkey -- |t Turkmenistan -- |t Tuvalu -- |t Tyndall, John -- |t Uganda -- |t Ukraine -- |t UN Conference on Trade and Development/Earth Council Institute : Carbon Market Program -- |t United Arab Emirates -- |t United Kingdom -- |t United Nations -- |t United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) -- |t United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) -- |t United States of America -- |t University Corporation for Atmospheric Research -- |t University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Joint Office for Science Support -- |t University of Alaska -- |t University of Arizona -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t University of Birmingham -- |t University of California, Berkeley -- |t University of Cambridge -- |t University of Colorado -- |t University of Delaware -- |t University of East Anglia -- |t University of Florida -- |t University of Hawaii -- |t University of Illinois -- |t University of Kentucky -- |t University of Leeds -- |t University of Maine -- |t University of Maryland -- |t University of Miami -- |t University of Michigan -- |t University of Nebraska -- |t University of New Hampshire -- |t University of Oklahoma -- |t University of Reading -- |t University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) -- |t University of Utah -- |t University of Washington -- |t Upwelling, Coastal -- |t Upwelling Equatorial -- |t Uruguay -- |t U.S. Global Change Research Program -- |t Utah -- |t Utah Climate Center -- |t Uzbekistan -- |t Validation of climate models -- |t Vanuatu -- |t Venezuela -- |t Vermont -- |t Vermont Law School -- |t Vienna Convention -- |t Vietnam -- |t Villach Conference -- |t Virginia -- |t Von Neumann, John -- |t Vostok Core -- |t Walker, Gilbert Thomas -- |t Walker circulation -- |t Washington -- |t Washington, Warren -- |t Waves, Gravity -- |t Waves, Internal -- |t Waves, Kelvin -- |t Waves, Planetary -- |t Waves, Rossby -- |t Weather -- |t Weather World 2010 Project -- |t Western Boundary Currents -- |t Western Regional Climate Center -- |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t West Virgina -- |t Wind-driven circulation -- |t Winds, Easterlies -- |t Winds, Westerlies -- |t Wisconsin -- |t Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution -- |t World Bank -- |t World Business Council for Sustainable Development -- |t World Climate Research Program -- |t World Health Organization -- |t World Meteorological Organization -- |t World Resources Institute -- |t World systems theory -- |t Worldwatch Institute -- |t World Weather Watch -- |t World Wildlife Fund -- |t Wyoming -- |t Yemen -- |t Younger Dryas -- |t Zambia -- |t Zimbabwe. |
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