Weather, climate, and climate change : human perspectives /
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 cen...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2013, ©2005.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781317904823 1317904826 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction to systems and the climate system
- 2. Mass components of the climate system
- 3. Energy components of 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 in the high latitudes : polar regions
- 9. Weather, climate and climate change in the mid-latitude oceanic margins : north-west Europe
- 10. Weather, climate and climate change in the mid-latitude continental interiors : North America
- 11. Weather, climate and climate change in the low latitudes
- 12. Humans and climate change.