(Izdošanas datums: 12-Nov-2009, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521898485)
Temperature is probably the most influential of all climatic variables. Our only direct, quantitative knowledge of global temperatures comes from instruments operated over the last 150 or so years. Yet as crucial and as central as these data are to...Lasīt vairāk
Panel on Reconciling Temperature Observations, Climate Research Committee, Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources, Board on Atmospheric Sciences & Climate, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research
An overall increase in global-mean atmospheric temperatures is predicted to occur in response to human-induced increases in atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. The most prominent of these gases, carbon dioxide, has increa...Lasīt vairāk