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The Legacy of Svante Arrhenius : understanding the greenhouse effect / edited by Henning Rodhe and Robert Charlson.

Title
The Legacy of Svante Arrhenius : understanding the greenhouse effect / edited by Henning Rodhe and Robert Charlson.
Publication
Stockholm : Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm University, c1998.

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Additional Authors
  • Charlson, Robert J.
  • Rodhe, H.
Description
276 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 24 cm.
Alternative Title
Understanding the greenhouse effect
Subject
  • Arrhenius, Svante, 1859-1927
  • Climatic changes
  • Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric
Note
  • "... published in order to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the publication of Svante Arrhenius' landmark paper on the greenhouse effect 'On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground'"--Foreword.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
  • committed to retain
Contents
In commemoration of Svante Arrhenius : scholar and teacher with a global perspective / H. Rodhe and R. Charlson -- Svante Arrhenius and the greenhouse effect / H. Rodhe, R. Charlson and E. Crawford -- Arrhenius' 1896 model of the greenhouse effect in context / E. Crawford -- Carbon dioxide warming of the early Earth / G. Arrhenius -- A review of the contemporary global carbon cycle and as seen a century ago by Arrhenius and Högbom / M. Heimann -- Direct climate forcing by anthropogenic sulfate aerosols : the Arrhenius paradigm a century later / R.J. Charlson -- Palaeoclimate sensitivity to CO₂ and insolation / A. Berger and M.-F. Loutre -- Greenhouse effect, atmospheric solar absorption and the Earth's radiation budget : from the Arrhenius-Langley era to the 1990s / V. Ramanathan and A.M. Vogelmann -- Early development in the study of greenhouse warming : the emergence of climate models / S. Manabe -- Assessing the treatment of radiation in climate models / A. Slingo -- A numerical simulation of anthropogenic climate change / L. Bengtsson -- Climate research : the case for the social sciences / H. von Storch and N. Stehr -- From Arrhenius to megascience : interplay between science and public decisionmaking / A. Elzinga -- On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature on the ground / Svante Arrhenius.
ISBN
9171900284
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library