Weather, Climate and Climate Change

Human Perspectives

Greg O'Hare, John Sweeney, Rob Wilby (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

444 Seiten

2004
Prentice-Hall (Verlag)
978-0-13-028319-1 (ISBN)

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Integrating the latest scientific developments throughout, this text centres on climate change control, addressing how weather and climate impact on environment and society. It provides an analysis of the processes and consequences of natural and human induced changes in both the structure and function of the climate system.

A timely and accessible analysis of one of the most crucial and contentious issues facing the world today – the processes and consequences of natural and human induced changes in the structure and function of the climate system.

Integrating the latest scientific developments throughout, the text centres on climate change control, addressing how weather and climate impact on environment and society.

Greg O'Hare, John Sweeney, Rob Wilby

1. Introduction
2. Mass Components of the Climate System
3. Energy in the Climate System
4. Motions of the Climate System
5. Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions
6. Changes in the Climate System
7. Modelling the Climate System
8. Weather, Climate and Climate Change of the High Latitudes
9. Weather, Climate and Climate Change of the Mid Latitude Oceanic Margins
10. Weather, Climate and Climate Change of the Mid Latitude Continental Interiors
11. Weather, Climate and Climate Change of the Low Latitudes
12. Human Adjustment to Climate Change

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.12.2004
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 246 mm
Gewicht	820 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10	0-13-028319-3 / 0130283193
ISBN-13	978-0-13-028319-1 / 9780130283191
Zustand	Neuware