The book discusses the ideas and creates a framework for building toward a theory of paleoclimate. Using the rich and mounting array of observational evidence of climatic changes from geology, geochemistry, and paleontology, Saltzman offers a dynamical approach to the theory of paleoclimate evolution and an expanded theory of climate. <BR>Saltzman was a distinquished authority on dynamical meteorology. This book provides a comprehensive ...

This Working Group II volume brings us completely up-to-date on the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural systems to climate change. ...

aus der Reihe NATO ASI Series I: Global Environmental Change'> On decadal time scales, climate change may result not only from man-made causes, but also from natural processes. This book brings together theoretical conceptions of the physical mechanisms of climate change with observational evidence of these changes. The following key topics are included: Observed Climatic Variability, Predictability of the Atmosphere and Oceans from Days to Decades, and Mechanisms for Decadal to Centennial Climate ...

Macht Kohlendioxid unsere Erde zu einem Treibhaus, das sich immer weiter aufheizt? Jahrhunderthochwasser, Sturmfluten und lauwarme Winter - das Klima ist ausden Fugen geraten, denn der Mensch bläst zu viel Kohlendioxid in die Luft.Das behaupten zumindest einige Wissenschaftler; die Politik hat sich ihnenangeschlossen.Doch lassen sich Klimaschwankungen so einfach erklären? Bei nähererBetrachtung kommen Zweifel auf: Das Kohlendioxid kann nicht der ...

This unique volume summarizes and integrates more than a decade of atmospheric chemistry research, carried out under the auspices of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). It is part of a series being written by each of the IGBP core projects. During the period under consideration, great progress has been made in the science, computing, modelling and observational ...

Das Buch stellt das Klimageschehen in der Vergangenheit der Erde unter Verwendung neuester wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse in einen globalen Zusammenhang. Anhand von Beiträgen zur Klimarelevanz erdgeschichtlich markanter Ereignisse, zur Bedeutung der Ozeane oder zum Verhalten von Pflanzen hinsichtlich ihres Ökosystems zeigen die Herausgeber, daß Erdgeschichte gleichzeitig auch Klimageschichte der Erde ist. Diese Kenntnisse ...

For the very first time, this book provides updated, integrated and organized, theoretical and methodological information on regional climate change and the associated environmental and socio-economic impacts on a regional scale. The most recent findings in the field of long-term climate change, which improve our understanding of the global climate puzzle, will be presented. Readers are introduced to state-of-the-art research in downscaling and ...

Global climatic change will most likely affect natural resources and human living conditions in semiarid regions. This volume presents disciplinary as well as integrative methods to assess these impacts considering the interactions between climate variability and change, water availability, land-use systems, and quality of life. Taking the semiarid northeastern area of Brazil as an example, a wide range of expertise and knowledge (from ...

Both fire and climatic variability have monumental impacts on the dynamics of temperate ecosystems. These impacts can sometimes be extreme or devastating as seen in recent El Nino/La Nina cycles and in uncontrolled fire occurrences. This volume brings together research conducted in western North and South America, areas of a great deal of collaborative work on the influence of people and climate change on fire regimes. In order to give ...

This book examines the allocational and distributional impacts of international climate policy on different regions of the world by taking into account the ongoing process of globalization. It concentrates on the impacts of trade in goods and international capital mobility on climate policy outcomes. The costs of an international climate policy are assessed by incorporating the Kyoto Protocol into a multi-regional, multi-sectoral, recursive ...