David Archer: Global Warming | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780470943410 | Global Warming | Understanding the Forecast | David Archer | Buch

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Based on the author's highly successful undergraduate course taught at the University of Chicago, Global Warming presents the processes of climate change and climate stability. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, this Second Edition not only summarizes scientific evidence, but also presents economic and political issues related to global warming.

Über den Autor

David Archer is the author of Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, published by John Wiley and Sons and a book for popular audiences called The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 years of the Earth's Climate, published by Princeton University Press and winner of the 2009 Walter P. Kistler Award, The Foundation for the Future.
Since 1993, Archer has been a professor in the department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and has worked on a wide range of topics pertaining to the global carbon cycle and its relation to the global climate, with a special focus on ocean sedimentary processes such as CaCO3 dissolution and methane hydrate formation and their impact on the evolution of atmospheric CO2.
He currently teaches classes on global warming, environmental chemistry and global geochemical cycles.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Online Models v

Preface vii

1 Humankind and Climate 1

Part I The Greenhouse Effect 7

2 Blackbody Radiation 9

3 The Layer Model 19

4 Greenhouse Gases 29

5 What Holds the Atmosphere Up? 43

6 Weather and Climate 57

7 Feedbacks 73

Part II The Carbon Cycle 87

8 Carbon on Earth 89

9 Fossil Fuels and Energy 103

10 The Perturbed Carbon Cycle 119

Part III The Forecast 133

11 The Smoking Gun 135

12 Potential Climate Impacts 153

13 Decisions, Decisions 173

Glossary 191

Index 197

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Genre:	Importe , Umwelt
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Ökologie
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Online Models.Preface.1 Humankind and Climate.Part I The Greenhouse Effect.2 Blackbody Radiation.3 The Layer Model.4 Greenhouse Gases.5 What Holds the Atmosphere Up?6 Weather and Climate.7 Feedbacks.Part II The Carbon Cycle.8 Carbon on Earth.9 Fossil Fue
ISBN-13:	9780470943410
ISBN-10:	0470943416
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Archer, David
Auflage:	2. Auflage
Hersteller:	John Wiley & Sons John Wiley & Sons Inc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	260 x 205 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	David Archer
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.11.2011
Gewicht:	0,356 kg