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Introduction to Climate Science - 1st Edition

This book describes how Earth's climate is changing, how it has been changing in the recent geological past and how it may change in the future. It covers the physical sciences that build the foundations of our current understanding of global climate change such as radiation, Earth's energy balance, the greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle. Both natural and human causes for climate change are discussed. Impacts of climate change on natural and human systems are summarized. Ethical and economical aspects of human-caused climate change and solutions are presented.

Subjects:

Environmental Sciences

Keywords:

Climatology Textbooks Climatic changes

Resource Type:

e-book
e-book

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (Earth and Environmental Sciences)

DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Subjects:

Environmental Sciences

Keywords:

Geography Climatology Ecology Meteorology Earth sciences Oceanography Environmental sciences Geology

Resource Type:

e-book

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