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At a time when the evidence is stronger than ever that human activity is the primary cause for global climate change, Ruddiman's breakthrough text returns in a thoroughly updated new edition. It offers a clear, engaging, objective portrait of the current state of climate science, including compelling recent findings on anthropogenic global warming and important advances in understanding past climates.
At a time when the evidence is stronger than ever that human activity is the primary cause for global climate change, Ruddiman's breakthrough text returns in a thoroughly updated new edition. It offers a clear, engaging, objective portrait of the current state of climate science, including compelling recent findings on anthropogenic global warming and important advances in understanding past climates.
- 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
New_to_this_edition
- 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)
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 Climate
17. Climate Changes During the Last 1000 Years
18. Climate Changes Since 1850
19. Causes of Warming over the Last 125 Years
20. Future Climatic Change.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Geologie |
| Genre: | Geowissenschaften |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781319154004 |
| ISBN-10: | 131915400X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 978-1-319-15400-4 |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Ruddiman, William F. |
| Auflage: | 3rd edition |
| Hersteller: |
Macmillan Learning
W. H. Freeman Worth Publishers |
| Abbildungen: | Bibliographie |
| Maße: | 277 x 217 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | William F. Ruddiman |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.10.2013 |
| Gewicht: | 0,896 kg |
- 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
New_to_this_edition
- 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)
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 Climate
17. Climate Changes During the Last 1000 Years
18. Climate Changes Since 1850
19. Causes of Warming over the Last 125 Years
20. Future Climatic Change.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2013 |
|---|---|
| Fachbereich: | Geologie |
| Genre: | Geowissenschaften |
| Rubrik: | Naturwissenschaften & Technik |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781319154004 |
| ISBN-10: | 131915400X |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Herstellernummer: | 978-1-319-15400-4 |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Ruddiman, William F. |
| Auflage: | 3rd edition |
| Hersteller: |
Macmillan Learning
W. H. Freeman Worth Publishers |
| Abbildungen: | Bibliographie |
| Maße: | 277 x 217 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | William F. Ruddiman |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 01.10.2013 |
| Gewicht: | 0,896 kg |
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