Modern climate change science : an overview of today's climate change science /

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Author / Creator:Farmer, G. Thomas, author.
Imprint:Cham : Springer, [2014]
©2015
Description:1 online resource (xxv, 106 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language:English
Series:SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science, 2191-5547
SpringerBriefs in environmental science,
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11087160
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ISBN:9783319092225
3319092227
9783319092218
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 25, 2014).
Summary:Composed of two extensive sections, this book surveys important work in climate change science, mainly in the United States, and introduces contributions to the body of science that have arrived on the scene between January 2013 and February 2014. The opening section offers a broad examination of contemporary climate change science, with subsections on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); Earth's energy imbalance and energy flow; carbon dioxide's role in the greenhouse effect; climate forcing, and climate feedbacks; Charles David Keeling and the Keeling Curve; the interfaces of.
Other form:Print version: Farmer, G. Thomas. Modern Climate Change Science : An Overview of Today's Climate Change Science. Dordrecht : Springer, ©2014 9783319092218
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-319-09222-5