Earth's Climate

Motivated by advances in the field of climate science, this new edition uses a multidisciplinary perspective to address new evidence for anthropogenically driven global warming and explores important new advances in understanding past climates and the climatic responses of Earth's major systems as they have developed through the planet's history.

• Renowned Author, Bill Ruddiman

• Multidisciplinary Presentation

• Focus on Major Themes such as the causes of Climate Change

• Follows Earth's Timeline

• Mystery Solving Approach

• Superb Art

• Features Boxes
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• New chapter 2: Earth's Climate System Today

• The chapter gives students a valuable foundation for understanding the basic operation of the climate system. Formerly available only online, this chapter has been integrated into the main text.

• Important Recent Advances

• The new edition discusses a wide range of new research throughout, including the latest on:

• Cyclic orbital-scale changes in ice sheet size (Chapter 11)

• Millennial-scale changes in climate (Chapter 14)

• Responses of components of the climate system to global warming (Chapter 17)

Autorentext

William F. Ruddiman

Inhalt
PART I: FRAMEWORK OF CLIMATE SCIENCE 1. Overview of Climate Science 2. Earth's Climate System Today 3. Climatic Archives, Data and Models.- PART II: TECTONIC-SCALE CLIMATE CHANGE 4. CO2 and Long-Term Climate 5. Plate Tectonics and Long-Term Climate 6. Greenhouse Climate From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Last 50 Million Years .- PART III: ORBITAL-SCALE CLIMATE CHANGE 8. Astronomical Control of Solar Radiation 9. Insolation Control of Monsoons 10. Insolation Control of Ice Sheets 11. Orbital-Scale Changes in Carbon Dioxide and Methane 12. Orbital-Scale Interactions, Feedbacks, and Unsolved Problems .- PART IV: GLACIAL/DEGLACIAL CLIMATE CHANGE 13. The Last Glacial Maximum 14. Climate During and Since the Last Deglaciation 15. Millennial Oscillations of Climate.- PART V: HISTORICAL AND FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE 16. Humans and Pre-Industrial Climate17. Climate Changes During the Last 1000 Years18. Climate Changes Since 1850 - 19. Causes of Warming over the Last 125 Years 20. Future Climatic Change.