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3 volumes (liii, 1136, 97 unnumbered pages ): illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Abrupt climate changes -- Adaptation -- Aerosols -- Afforestation -- Afghanistan -- Agriculture -- Agulhas Current -- Air Force, U.S. -- Alabama -- Alaska -- Alaska Climate Research Center -- Albania -- Albedo -- Algeria -- Alliance of Small Island States -- Alliance to Save Energy -- Alternative energy, Ethanol -- Alternative energy, Overview -- Alternative energy, Solar -- Alternative energy, Wind -- American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy -- American Electric Power -- American Gas Association -- American Geophysical Union -- American Meteorological Society -- Andorra -- Angola -- Animals -- An Inconvenient Truth -- Antarctic circumpolar Current -- Antarctic ice sheets -- Antarctic Meteorology Research Center -- Anthropogenic forcing -- Anticyclones -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Applied Energy Services, Inc. -- Arakawa, Akio -- Arctic Ocean -- Argentina -- Arizona -- Arkansas -- Armenia -- Arrhenius, Svante August -- Atlantic Ocean - Atmosphere, Climate and Environment Information Programme (UK) -- Atmospheric absorption of solar radiation -- Atmospheric boundary layer -- Atmospheric component of models -- Atmospheric composition -- Atmospheric emission of infrared radiation -- Atmospheric general circulation models -- Atmospheric Research and Information Centre -- Atmospheric vertical structure -- Attribution of global warming -- Aurora -- Australia -- |
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Austria -- Automobiles -- Aviation -- Azerbaijan -- Bahamas -- Bahrain -- Bangladesh -- Barbados -- Belarus -- Belgium -- Belize -- Benguela Current -- Benin -- Berlin Mandate -- Bhutan -- Biogeochemical feedbacks -- Biology -- Biomass -- Blizzards -- Bolin, Bert -- Bolivia -- Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Botany -- Botswana -- BP -- Brazil -- Broecker, Wallace -- Brunei Darussalam -- Bryan, Kirk -- Bryson, Reid -- Budyko, Mikhail -- Bulgaria -- Burkina Faso -- Burundi -- Bush (George H.W.) administration -- Bush (George W.) administration -- California -- California Institute of Technology -- Cambodia -- Cameroon -- Canada -- Canadian Association for Renewable Energies -- Cantor Fitzgerald EBS -- Cape Verde -- Capitalism -- Carbon cycle -- Carbon dioxide -- Carbon emissions -- Carbon footprints -- Carbon permits -- Carbon sequestration -- Carbon sinks -- Cenozoic era -- Center for Clean Air Policy -- Center for Energy Efficiency -- Center for International Climate and Environment Research -- Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies -- Center Science and Environment (India) -- Central African Republic -- Chad -- Chamerlin, Thomas C. -- Chaos theory -- Charney, Jule Gregory -- Chemistry -- Chile -- China -- Clean Air Act, U.S. -- Clean development mechanism -- CLIMAP Project -- Climate -- |
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Climate Action Network -- Climate change, Effects -- Climate Change Knowledge Network -- Climate cycles -- Climate feedback -- Climate forcing -- Climate Impacts LINK Project -- Climate models -- Climate sensitivity and feedbacks -- Climate thresholds -- Climate zones -- Climatic data, Atmospheric observations -- Climatic data, Cave records -- Climatic data, Historical records -- Climatic data, Ice observations -- Climatic data, Instrumental records -- Climatic data, Lake records -- Climatic data, Nature of the data -- climatic data, Oceanic observations -- Climatic data, proxy records -- Climatic data, Reanalysis -- Climatic data, Sea floor records -- Climatic data, Sediment records -- Climatic data, Tree ring records -- Climatic Research Unit -- Clinton administration -- Cloud feedback -- Clouds, Cirrus -- Clouds, Stratus -- Coal -- Colombia -- Colorado -- Colorado Climate Center -- Columbia University -- Comoros -- Compliance -- Computer models -- Condensation -- Congo -- Congo, Democratic Republic of -- Connecticut -- Conservation -- Convection -- Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research -- Coriolis force -- Cornell University -- Costa Rica -- Côte d'Ivoire -- Cretaceous era -- Croatia -- Croll, James -- Cuba -- Culture -- Current -- Cyclones -- Cyprus -- Czech Republic -- |
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David Suzuki Foundation -- Deforestation -- Delaware -- Denmark -- Department of Defense, U.S. -- Department of Energy, U.S. -- Department of State, U.S. -- Desertification -- Desert Research Institute -- Deserts -- Detection of climate changes -- Developing countries -- Diseases -- Djibouti -- Doldrums -- Dominica -- Dominican Republic -- Doris Duke Charitable Foundation -- Drift ice -- Drought -- Dynamical feedbacks -- Earth's climate history -- Earthshine -- East Timor -- Ecological footprint -- Economics, Cost of affecting climate change -- Economics, Impact from climate change -- Ecosystems -- Ecuador -- Edison Electric Institute -- Education -- Egypt -- Ekman layer -- El Niño and La Niña -- El Salvador -- Emissions, Baseline -- Emissions, Cement industry -- Emissions, Trading -- Energy -- Energy, Renewable -- Energy balance models -- Energy efficiency -- Environmental and societal impacts group -- Environmental defense -- Environmental Development Action in the Third World -- Environment Financial Products, LLC -- Environmental history -- Environmental Law Institute -- Equatorial countercurrent -- Equatorial Guinea -- Equatorial undercurrent -- Eritrea -- Estonia -- Ethics -- Ethiopia -- European Commission -- European Union -- Evaporation and transpiration -- Evaporation feedbacks -- Evolution of the atmosphere -- |
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FEEM (Italy) -- Fiji -- Finland -- Floods -- Florida -- Florida International University -- Florida State University -- Food miles -- Food production -- Foraminifera -- Forced climate variability -- Forests -- Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development -- Fourier, Joseph -- Framework Convention on Climate Change -- France -- Friends of the Earth -- Gabon -- Gaia hypothesis -- Gambia -- Geography -- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory -- Georgia (Nation) -- Georgia (U.S. state) -- Geospatial technology -- Germany -- Ghana -- Glaciers, Retreating -- Glaciology -- Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP) -- Global Environment Facility (GEF) -- Global Industrial and Social Progress Research Institute (SISPRI) -- Globalization -- Global warming -- Goddard Institute for Space Studies -- Gore, Albert, Jr. -- Greece -- Green buildings -- Green cities -- Green design -- Green homes -- Greenhouse effect -- Greenhouse gases -- Greenland cores -- Greenland ice sheet -- Greenpeace International -- Grenada -- Gross national product -- Gross primary production -- Guatemala -- Guinea -- Guinea-Bissau -- Gulf Stream -- Guyana -- Hadley, George -- |
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Hadley circulation -- Haiti -- Hansen, James -- Harvard University -- Hawaii -- Health -- Heat, Latent -- Heat, Sensible -- Heinz Center -- Historical development of climate models -- History of climatology -- History of meteorology -- Holocene era -- Honduras -- Hot air -- Hungary -- Hurricanes and typhoons -- Hydrofluorocarbons -- Hydrological cycle -- Ice ages -- Ice Albedo Feedback -- Ice component of models -- Iceland -- Idaho -- Idaho State Climate Services -- Illinois -- Impacts of global warming -- India -- Indiana -- Indiana University -- Indian Ocean -- Indonesia -- Industrialization -- Institute of Energy Economics (Argentina) -- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- Internal climate variability -- International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) -- International Energy Agency (IEA) -- International Geophysical Year (IGY) -- International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP) -- International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) -- International Research Institute for Climate Prediction -- International Solar Energy Society (ISES) -- International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) -- Intertropical convergence zone -- Iowa -- Iowa State University -- Iran -- Iraq -- Ireland -- Israel -- Italy -- |
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Jamaica -- Japan -- Jet streams -- Johns Hopkins University -- Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) -- Jordan -- Jurassic era -- Kansas -- Kazakhstan -- Keeling, Charles David -- Kentucky -- Kenya -- Kiribati -- Korea, North -- Korea, South -- Kuroshio Current -- Kuwait -- Kyoto mechanisms -- Kyoto Protocol -- Kyrgyzstan -- Land component of models -- Land use -- Laos -- Latvia -- LDEO Climate Modeling Group -- Lebanon -- Lesotho -- Liberia -- Liechtenstein -- Life cycle analysis -- Lindzen, Richard -- Lithuania -- Little Ice Age -- Lorenz, Edward -- Louisiana -- Louisiana State University -- Luxembourg -- Macedonia (FYROM) -- Madagascar -- Maine -- Malawi -- Malaysia -- Maldives -- Mali -- Malta -- Manabe, Syukuro -- Marine mammals -- Marshall Institute -- Marshall Islands -- Maryland -- Massachusetts -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Mauritania -- Mauritius -- Maximum sustainable yield -- Measurement and assessment -- Media, books and journals -- Media, Internet -- Media, TV -- Meridional overturning circulation -- Mesosphere -- Mesozoic era -- Methane cycle -- Mexico -- Michigan -- Micronesia -- Midwestern Regional Climate Center -- Mílankovitch, Milutin -- Milankovitch cycles -- Minnesota -- Mississippi -- Mississippi State University -- Missouri -- Mixed layer -- Modeling of ice ages -- |
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Modeling of ocean circulation -- Modeling of paleoclimates -- Moldova -- Monaco -- Mongolia -- Monsoons -- Montana -- Montreal Protocol -- Morocco -- Movements, Environmental -- Mozambique -- Munk, Walter -- Myanmar -- Namibia -- National Academy of Sciences, U.S. -- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) -- National Association of Energy Service Companies (NAESCO) -- National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) -- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) -- National Science Foundation -- Natsource -- Natural gas -- Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) -- Nauru -- Navy, U.S. -- Nebraska -- Needs and wants -- Nepal -- Netherlands -- Net primary production -- Nevada -- New Hampshire -- New Jersey -- New Mexico - New Mexico Climate Center -- New York -- New Zealand -- Nicaragua -- Niger -- Nigeria -- Nitrous oxide -- Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) -- North Atlantic oscillation -- North Carolina -- North Dakota -- Norway -- Nuclear power -- Ocean component of models -- Oceanic changes -- Oceanography -- OECD Annex 1 Expert Group on the UNFCCC -- OECD Climate Change documents -- Office of Naval Research -- Ohio -- Ohio State University -- |
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Oil, Consumption of -- Oil, Production of -- Oklahoma -- Oman -- Orbital parameters, Eccentricity -- Orbital parameters, Obliquity -- Orbital parameters, Precession -- Oregon -- Oregon Climate Service -- Oregon State University -- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) -- Oxygen cycle -- Pacific Ocean -- Pakistan -- Palau -- Paleoclimates -- Paleozoic era -- Panama -- Papua New Guinea -- Paraguay -- Penguins -- Penn State University -- Pennsylvania -- Perfluorocarbons -- Peru -- Peruvian Current -- Pew Center on Global Climate Change -- Philippines -- Phillips, Norman -- Phytoplankton -- Plants -- Pleistocene era -- Pliocene era -- Poland -- Polar bears -- Policy, International -- Policy, U.S. -- Pollution, Air -- Pollution, Land -- Pollution, Water -- Population -- Portugal -- Precambrian era -- Precautionary principle -- Precipitation -- Preparedness -- Princeton University -- Public awareness -- Qatar -- Quaternary era -- Radiation, Absorption -- Radiation, Infrared -- Radiation, Long wave -- Radiation, Microwave -- Radiation, Short wave -- Radiation, Ultraviolet -- Radiative feedbacks -- Rain -- Rainfall patterns -- Refugees, Environmental -- Regulation -- Religion -- Renewable Energy Policy Project (REPP) -- Resources -- Resources for the Future (RFF) -- Revelle, Roger -- Rhode Island -- Richardson, Lewis Fry -- Risk -- Romania -- Rossby, Carl-Gustav -- Royal Dutch/Shell Group -- Royal Meteorological Society -- |
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Russia -- Rwanda -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Saint Lucia -- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines -- Salinity -- Samoa -- San Marino -- São Tomé and Principe -- Saudi Arabia -- Schneider, Stephen H. -- Scripps Institute of Oceanography -- Sea ice -- Sea level, Rising -- Seasonal cycle -- Seawater, Composition of -- Senegal -- Serbia and Montenegro -- Seychelles -- Sierra Leone -- Simulation and predictability of seasonal and interannual variations -- Singapore -- Singer, S. Fred -- Slovakia -- Slovenia -- Smagorinsky, Joseph -- Snowball Earth -- Social ecology -- Soil organic carbon -- Soils -- Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) -- Solar wind -- Solomon Islands -- Somalia -- South Current -- South Africa -- South Carolina -- South Dakota -- Southern Ocean -- Southern oscillation -- Spain -- Species extinction -- Sri Lanka -- Stanford University -- Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) -- Stommel, Henry -- Stratopause -- Stratosphere -- Sudan -- Sulphur dioxide -- Sulphur hexafluoride -- Sunlight -- Suriname -- Sustainability -- Sverdrup, Harald Ulrik -- Swaziland -- Sweden -- |
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Switzerland -- Syria -- Tajikistan -- Tanzania -- Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) -- Technology -- Tennessee -- Tertiary climate -- Texas -- Thailand -- Thermocline -- Thermodynamics -- Thermohaline circulation -- Thermosphere -- Thunderstorms -- Togo -- Tonga -- Toronto Conference -- Tourism -- Trade winds -- Transportation -- Trexler and Associates, Inc. -- Triassci period -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Tropopause -- Troposphere -- Tsunamis -- Tunisia -- Turkey -- Turkmenistan -- Tuvalu -- Tyndall, John -- Uganda -- Ukraine -- UN Conference on Trade and Development/Earth Council Institute : Carbon Market Program -- United Arab Emirates -- United Kingdom -- United Nations -- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) -- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) -- United States of America -- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research -- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Joint Office for Science Support -- University of Alaska -- University of Arizona -- |
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University of Birmingham -- University of California, Berkeley -- University of Cambridge -- University of Colorado -- University of Delaware -- University of East Anglia -- University of Florida -- University of Hawaii -- University of Illinois -- University of Kentucky -- University of Leeds -- University of Maine -- University of Maryland -- University of Miami -- University of Michigan -- University of Nebraska -- University of New Hampshire -- University of Oklahoma -- University of Reading -- University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) -- University of Utah -- University of Washington -- Upwelling, Coastal -- Upwelling Equatorial -- Uruguay -- U.S. Global Change Research Program -- Utah -- Utah Climate Center -- Uzbekistan -- Validation of climate models -- Vanuatu -- Venezuela -- Vermont -- Vermont Law School -- Vienna Convention -- Vietnam -- Villach Conference -- Virginia -- Von Neumann, John -- Vostok Core -- Walker, Gilbert Thomas -- Walker circulation -- Washington -- Washington, Warren -- Waves, Gravity -- Waves, Internal -- Waves, Kelvin -- Waves, Planetary -- Waves, Rossby -- Weather -- Weather World 2010 Project -- Western Boundary Currents -- Western Regional Climate Center -- |
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West Virgina -- Wind-driven circulation -- Winds, Easterlies -- Winds, Westerlies -- Wisconsin -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution -- World Bank -- World Business Council for Sustainable Development -- World Climate Research Program -- World Health Organization -- World Meteorological Organization -- World Resources Institute -- World systems theory -- Worldwatch Institute -- World Weather Watch -- World Wildlife Fund -- Wyoming -- Yemen -- Younger Dryas -- Zambia -- Zimbabwe. |
Subject |
Global warming -- Encyclopedias.
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Climatic changes -- Encyclopedias.
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Added Author |
Philander, S. George.
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ISBN |
9781412958783 alkaline paper |
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1412958784 alkaline paper |
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