Stimulating 2002 discussion of the interaction between the geosphere/biosphere and climate for researchers and graduate students.
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"It is written clearly and accessibly...This edited volume is uniquely multidisciplinary and is far better written and organized than typical hardcover collections of papers from climate workshops...It succeeds in providing our climate science community with a valuable and engaging current view of our understanding of how the Earth's coupled climate system functioned in the past and how we may expect it to behave in the near future." Bulletin of the AMS
"The authors of the chapters are all highly respected scientists, and this volume thus represents a valuable integration of scientific thinking and research." Choice
"The contributions span the full range of information and utility.... The book offers a wonderful chance for a glimpse of some distinguished scholars and their interpretations of the current biophysical status of the Earth." The Quarterly Review of Biology
This 2002 volume brings together many of the world's leading environmental scientists for a excellent discussion of the interaction between the geosphere/biosphere and climate. It will be invaluable for researchers and graduate students in climate studies who wish to gain a current multidisciplinary perspective of research in this topic.
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2001. Geography. Cambridge University Press. Good+ pictorial boards with wave or ripple to text pages along margins (sorry about that) otherwise tight and very clean. 302p. Seller Inventory # 13464
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a small bumpt to the bottom corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a section of color graphs and examples at the front of the book as well. "Geosphere-Biosphere - brings together many of the world's leading environmental scientists to discuss the interation between the geosphere-biosphere and climate. The volume arises from a working group of the prestigious Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. The chapters give a state-of the-art summary of our current understanding of the present climate and environment by exploring Earth's past, analysing human influence on the climate, describing climate and its relation to the Earth's surface, ocean, and atmosphere, and making future predictions of cliimate viability." Chapters include: The Antarctic Ozone Hole, a Human-Caused Chemical Instability in the Stratosphere, Feedbacks and Interactions between Global Change, Atmospheric Chemistry and the Biosphere, Atmospheric CO2 Variations, Modeling and Evaluating Terrestrial Biospheric Exchanges of Water, Carbon Dioxide, and Oxygen in the Global Climate System, Carbon Futures, Global Climate Change in the Human Perspective, Earth System models and the Global BIogeochemical Cycles, The Role of CO2, Sea-Level, and Vegetation During the Milankovitch-Forces Glacial-Interglacial Cycles, Nonlinearities in the Earth System, Simulations of the Climate of the Holocene, Interations of Climate Change, The Record of Paleoclimactic Change and its Greenhouse Implications, Long-Term Stability of Earth's Climate, Physical and Chemical Properties of the Glacial Ocean, Ice Core Records and Relevance for Future Climate Variations, Toward a New Approach to Climate Impact Studies, Research Objectives of the World Climate Research Programme, and, Panel Discussion: future research Objectives. Seller Inventory # A43621
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