Understanding the Earth's climate system and predicting its behavior under a range of “what
if” scenarios are among the greatest challenges for science today. The stakes are high, and …

Mathematical and Physical Fundamentals of Climate Change is the first book to provide an
overview of the math and physics necessary for scientists to understand and apply …

Provides students with a solid foundation in climate science, with which to understand global
warming, natural climate variations, and climate models. As climate models are one of our …

Global Physical Climatology, Second Edition, provides an introduction to the science of
climate and climate change that spans the atmosphere, ocean, and land surface, and the …

Human-caused climate change is perhaps the defining environmental issue of the early
twenty-first century. We observe the earth's climate in the present, but observations of future …

The globally averaged surface temperature of the Earth has increased during the past
century by about 0.7° C. Most of the increase can be attributed to the greenhouse effect, the …

The earth's climate changes. It is vastly different now from what it was 100 million years ago,
when dinosaurs dominated the planet and tropical plants thrived at high lati tudes; it is …

A comprehensive analysis of all the components of the climate system (atmosphere, ocean,
ice sheets, etc) and of all the interactions between them is out of the scope of any course or …

The oceans exert a vital moderating influence on the Earth's climate system. They provide
inertia to the global climate, essentially acting as the pacemaker of climate variability and …

The global environment is a complex and dynamic system. Earth system modeling is
needed to help understand changes in interacting subsystems, elucidate the influence of …