Climate Process & Change

orig.boards Minor rubbing. VG. Textual maps & illustrations 29x21cm, xvi,209 pp Contents: Climate history of the Earth and background concepts: Proceses: Climatic processes; Scales of heat and mass transfers in the atmosphere; The role of oceans; Change: Scales of climate change: Pleistocene to modern; Causes of climate change; Human effects on climate; Impacts: Health impacts of climate change; Ecosystem impacts of climate change; Epilogue. ["This is the first major textbook to encompass the true complexity of climate change. Whilst 'greenhouse' warming dominates most of the literature, Ted Bryant presents numerous reasons for the observed climate change of the past century. He argues that changes in climate, more dramatic than those of the last 150 years, have been a predominant aspect of the Earth's climate over the past two million years. Bryant highlights human impacts on climate other than 'greenhouse' gases, including sulphate air pollutants, dust and urban heat islands. He also explains the natural components forcing climate change. Bryant presents, in simple terms, the processes that drive the Earth's present climate system. He outlines the nature and reasons for temperature fluctuations over millennia, including recent human-induced climate change. Finally, he discusses the impact of climate change upon human health and the world's ecosystems." - Publisher's description].…