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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Marie-Antoinette Mélières , Chloé MaréchalPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Dimensions: Width: 22.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 28.50cm Weight: 1.379kg ISBN: 9781118708521ISBN 10: 1118708520 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 24 April 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsForeword xiii Acknowledgements xv About the companion website xvii Introduction 1 Part I: The Climate Engine of The Earth: Energy 5 1. Why are there many different climates on Earth? 7 2. Different climates . . . such diversity of life 11 3. From a patchwork of climates to an average climate 19 4. The global mean climate 27 5. Atmosphere and ocean: key factors in climate equilibrium 33 Part II: More On The Energy Balance of The Planet 55 6. Thermal radiation, solar andterrestrial radiation 57 7. The impact of the atmosphere on radiation 61 8. Radiative transfer through the atmosphere 73 9. The energy balance 87 10. Climate forcing and feedback 93 11. Climate modelling 99 Part III: The Different Causes of Climate Change 109 12. The choice of approach 111 13. The Sun’s emission 115 14. The position of the Earth with respect to the Sun 119 15. The composition of the atmosphere 129 16. Heat transfer from the Equator to the poles 135 17. Oscillations due to ocean–atmosphere interactions 137 Part IV: Learning From The Past … 149 18. Memory of the distant past 151 19. Since 2.6 million years ago: the dance of glaciations 161 20. Glacial–interglacial cycles and the Milankovitch theory 181 21. The glaciation dance: consequences and lessons 191 22. The past 12,000 years: the warm Holocene 201 23. Global and regional fluctuations(Timescale 3: decades) 225 24. Future warming and past climates 231 Part V: Climate Change in Recent Years 241 25. Recent climate change 243 26. The impact of global warming on the cryosphere 257 27. The impact of warming on the ocean 273 28. The impact of warming on the biosphere 285 29. Warming in the 20th century: natural or human‐induced? 297 Part VI: Climate in The 21st Century: Different Scenarios 323 30. Two key factors 325 31. Projections: economic scenarios and climate models 329 32. Simulations: a survey 333 33. Future warming and its consequences 343 34. The choice 355 35. Climate change in the present state of the planet 363 Conclusion 369 References 373 Index 383Reviewsthis is a beautifully produced book which is a must for anyone interested in climatology but the reader must be prepared for some hardwork--this is certainly no coffee table book! (Chromatographia 2016) Author InformationMarie-Antoinette Mélières, Docteur d’Etat in physics, taught basic physics and, later, climate and environmental science at Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble 1 and at the University of Savoie. Her research has covered various areas ranging from molecular spectroscopy and atmospheric physics to environmental and climate science. In 1995 she established the newsletter Global Change, published by the French National Committee on Climate Change, under the authority of the Academy of Sciences. The Committee is the French branch of the four international programs IGBP, WCRP, IHDP and Diversitas. She continued to edit this publication until 2008. Chloé Maréchal, PhD, geochemist, is Maître de Conférences in the Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, where she teaches Earth Sciences at first university degree level and at Masters level. In her research into the biogeochemical cycles of copper and zinc in the Earth’s outer layers, she established a protocol for using isotopes of these elements by plasma-source mass spectrometry and investigated their isotopic fractionation in marine sediments, as well as in soils affected by human activity. She also worked on the geochemical cycle of boron, using its isotopic signal in marine biogenic carbonates as a tool in paleo-oceanographic reconstructions. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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