Research Catalog

Title

Global environmental change : an atmospheric perspective / John Horel and Jack Geisler.

Author

Horel, John DeWitt.

Publication

New York : John Wiley & Sons, ©1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Geisler, Jack.

Description

viii, 152 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Horel and Geisler's Global Environmental Change: An Atmospheric Perspective is a combination text and web site that focuses on two aspects of global change brought about by human activities: a global change in climate and a deterioration of the earth's protective shield of ozone. Use the book's Internet Companion feature to reach beyond its pages to explore the authors' Web Site. There you will find a rich offering of related reference materials, compiled and updated continuously. These on-line materials include color versions of the art in the book, ongoing research from the field of global change, and a wide range of hot links to other web sites that address human issues and policy concerns related to global change.

Subject

• Global environmental change
• Ozone layer depletion
• Global warming
• Internet
• Global Warming
• Internet
• global warming
• Global environmental change
• Global warming
• Ozone layer depletion
• Atmosphäre
• Umweltveränderung
• Anthropogene Klimaänderung
• Ecologia
• Climatic changes
• Sciences de la Terre > Ressources Internet
• Réchauffement de la Terre
• Couche d'ozone > Réduction
• Changements climatiques

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

THE GLOBAL ATMOSPHERE: The elements of global warming -- An example of climate -- The global surface temperature record -- THE RADIATION BALANCE OF THE EARTH-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM: Calculating the radiation balance -- Simple models of the greenhouse effect -- The effect of clouds on the radiation balance -- WEATHER AND CLIMATE: The weather -- Satellite cloud imagery -- The prediction of weather and climate -- The hydrologic cycle -- THE NATURAL VARIABILITY OF THE EARTH-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM: The role of volcanoes in the Earth-atmosphere system -- Air-sea interactions -- LONG-TERM CLIMATE VARIATIONS: Paleoclimatology -- The ice ages -- The Milankovitch theory of the ice ages -- THE CARBON CYCLE: The Preindustrial Carbon Cycle -- The Geochemical Carbon Cycle -- The Present Carbon Cycle -- GREENHOUSE GASES, CLOUDS, AND THE RADIATION BALANCE: The other greenhouse gases -- Radiative forcing due to increase of greenhouse gases -- Aerosols and sulfur -- Radiative forcing by clouds -- PREDICTING CLIMATE CHANGE: A review -- The feedback processes -- Doubling carbon dioxide in climate simulations -- Risk versus uncertainty -- DEPLETION OF STRATOSPHERIC OZONE: The natural life cycle of ozone -- The antarctic ozone hole -- Ozone depletion as a global environmental issue -- The future.

ISBN

• 0471130737
• 9780471130734

LCCN

96032536

OCLC

• ocm35192260
• 35192260
• SCSB-8871041

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library