30-Second Climate
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30-Second Climate

The 50 most topical events, measures and conditions, each explained in half a minute

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

30-Second Climate

The 50 most topical events, measures and conditions, each explained in half a minute

About this book

Weather and climate are not the same. Weather is what occurs outdoors on a daily basis and is unpredictable from one week to the next, whereas climate follows a stable pattern that is developed over centuries. The planet is divided into climate zones—tropical, temperate and polar—based on temperature differences with distance from the equator where the sun is most intense and temperature affects humidity, precipitation, cloudiness and wind. To understand what drives our climate, scientists study the atmosphere, the oceans, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. 30-Second Climate is an immediately accessible guide to the 50 key factors affecting Earth’s climate, past, present and future, each explained in half a minute. From atmospheric circulation to zero carbon, this is the quickest way to know your planet.

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INDEX

A
Abbot, Charles Greeley 34
Agassiz, Louis 64
agriculture 38, 128, 136, 144
air masses/fronts 16, 24, 26, 54
aircraft 92, 98
albedo 30, 32, 62, 132, 148
algal blooms 126
alkalinity 124
anthropogenic forcing 12, 132
Archaeopteris 74
Arrhenius, Svante 112, 115
atmosphere 14, 16, 37, 54, 68, 70
aircraft investigation 92
carbon cycle 80
GAW 86, 88
heating rates 42
Keeling Curve 83
models 94, 97
B
balloons 92, 98
bathymetry 104
Becquerel, Alexandre-Edmond 138
bioenergy 138
biomass 68, 69
biomes 70
biosphere 14, 68, 70, 80
Bjerknes, Jacob 24
Black, Joseph 52
Brandis, Dietrich 74
Broecker, Wallace Smith 18
Brush, Charles Francis 1...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Introduction
  6. The Earth’s Climate System
  7. Heating & Cooling
  8. Water
  9. Life & Biogeochemical Cycles
  10. Observations & Modelling
  11. Changing Climate
  12. The Future
  13. Resources
  14. Notes on Contributors
  15. Index
  16. Acknowledgements
  17. Copyright