Climate Change
eBook - ePub

Climate Change

Observed Impacts on Planet Earth

  1. 848 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Climate Change

Observed Impacts on Planet Earth

About this book

Climate Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth, Third Edition, brings together top global researchers across many disciplines to provide a comprehensive review on the complex issue of climate change and weather patterns. The third edition continues its tradition of focusing on the science and evidence on this highly politicized topic. Every chapter is updated, with this new edition featuring new chapters on topics such as glacier melt, the impacts of rising temperatures, extreme weather, modeling techniques, biodiversity, and more. This book is essential for researchers, environmental managers, engineers, and those whose work is impacted by, or tied to, climate change and global warming. - Provides a comprehensive resource on climate change and weather patterns, ranging from causes and indicators to modeling and adaptation - Covers the Jet Stream, catastrophic modeling, extreme weather, the carbon cycle, socioeconomic impacts, biological diversity, deforestation and global temperature - Contains 25 updated chapters and 10 new chapters, all written by global experts who provide a current overview of the state of knowledge on climate change across a wide array of disciplines

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Information

Publisher
Elsevier
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9780128215760
Edition
3
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Environmental Science
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Climate Change
  2. Cover
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. Preface to Third Edition
  8. 1 Global warming—a complex situation
  9. Chapter 2 Greenhouse gases and the emerging climate emergency
  10. 3 Climate change through Earth history
  11. Chapter 4 Numerical modeling of the global climate and carbon cycle system
  12. Chapter 5 Global surface temperatures
  13. Chapter 6 Arctic sea ice
  14. Chapter 7 Antarctic sea ice changes and their implications
  15. Chapter 8 Land ice
  16. Chapter 9 Glaciers and climate change
  17. Chapter 10 Poleward expansion of the atmospheric circulation
  18. Chapter 11 Rising sea levels as an indicator of global change
  19. Chapter 12 Ocean current changes
  20. Chapter 13 Ocean acidification and climate change
  21. Chapter 14 Permafrost and climate change
  22. Chapter 15 The jet stream and climate change
  23. Chapter 16 Extreme weather and climate change
  24. Chapter 17 Bird ecology
  25. Chapter 18 Insect communities
  26. Chapter 19 Sea life (pelagic ecosystems)
  27. Chapter 20 Changes in coral reef ecosystems as an indication of climate and global change
  28. Chapter 21 Marine biodiversity and climate change
  29. Chapter 22 Intertidal indicators of climate and global change
  30. Chapter 23 Lichens as an indicator of climate and global change
  31. Chapter 24 Plant pathogens as indicators of climate change
  32. Chapter 25 Invasive plants and climate change
  33. Chapter 26 Biological diversity and climate change
  34. Chapter 27 The role of forests in the carbon cycle and in climate change
  35. Chapter 28 The variation of the Earth's movements (orbital, tilt, and precession) and climate change
  36. Chapter 29 The role of volcanic activity in climate and global changes
  37. Chapter 30 Atmospheric aerosols and their role in climate change
  38. Chapter 31 Climate change and agriculture
  39. Chapter 32 Changes in the Sun's radiation
  40. Chapter 33 Space weather and cosmic ray effects
  41. Chapter 34 Engineering aspects of climate change
  42. Chapter 35 Societal adaptation to climate change
  43. Index