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Author Njau, Ernest C.

Title Modern science of climate changes / Ernest C. Njau.

Publication Info. New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 172 pages) : illustrations.
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Series Climate change and its causes, effects and prediction
Climate change and its causes, effects, and prediction series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ""MODERN SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGES ""; ""MODERN SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGES ""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ""; ""ABBREVIATIONS ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""1.1. THE EARTH�S ATMOSPHERE ""; ""1.2. WEATHER ""; ""1.3. WEATHER FORECASTING ""; ""1.4. CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE ""; ""1.5. GLOBAL WARMING ""; ""1.6. GLOBAL WARMING AND ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE ""; ""BASIC SCIENCE ON WHICH THE CLIMATE SYSTEM OPERATES ""; ""2.1. STRUCTURE AND MOTIONS OF THE CLIMATE SYSTEM ""; ""2.2. ENERGY INPUT AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE CRUST-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM ""
""2.3. GENERAL CIRCULATIONS OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEANS """"2.4. ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCES ON THE CLIMATE SYSTEM""; ""SOLAR ACTIVITY ""; ""3.1. INTRODUCTION ""; ""3.2. HOW SOLAR ACTIVITY IS MEASURED""; ""3.3. THE SOLAR WIND ""; ""3.4. SOLAR CYCLES ""; ""3.5. MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATION OF SOLAR ACTIVITY ""; ""HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGES UP TO 1990S ""; ""4.1. INTRODUCTION ""; ""4.2. SCIENCE BASED MOSTLY ON THE EARTH�S ORBITAL GEOMETRY ""; ""4.3. SCIENCE BASED ON DIRECT EFFECTS OF SOLAR ACTIVITY ""
""4.4. SCIENCE BASED ON INDIRECT EFFECTS OF SOLAR ACTIVITY """"4.5. SCIENCE BASED ON VOLCANIC ACTIVITY ""; ""4.6. SCIENCE BASED ON HUMAN ACTIVITIES ""; ""MODERN SCIENCE OF NATURAL CLIMATE CHANGES ""; ""5.1. INTRODUCTION ""; ""5.2. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW SCIENCE ""; ""5.2.1. Establishment Based on Frequency-domain Analysis ""; ""5.2.2. Establishment Based on Stationary Heat/temperature Conditions ""; ""5.2.3. Establishment Based on Stationary Frequency Conditions ""; ""5.3. SOLAR WIND AND SOLAR ACTIVITY INFLUENCES ON THE TROPOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION ""
""5.4. records-based dominance of solar activity on climate changes """"5.5. causes of rapid climate changes ""; ""5.6. relation between periods of isrc cycles and amplitude of associated sas temperature oscillations ""; ""5.7 prediction of future global temperature variations using equation (5.18) ""; ""5.8 actual shapes of terrestrial temperature variation patterns associated with cyclic variations in incident solar energy ""; ""5.9 the ozone hole and solar activity ""; ""modern science of human-induced climate changes ""; ""6.1. introduction ""
""6.2. climatic influence of anthropogenic greenhouse gases """"6.3. climatic influence of human-generated heat ""; ""6.4. climatic influence of electric and communication technologies ""; ""modern science of natural and human-induced changes in earthquakes, volcanic activity and related climate ""; ""7.1. introduction ""; ""7.2. how nature and human activities influence earthquakes, volcanic activity and related climate ""; ""7.3. new environmental disasters that can be caused by human activities ""; ""7.4. comparison between a tv system and the asthenosphere-atmosphere system ""
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Subject Climatology.
Climatology.
Climatic changes.
Climatic changes.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781617612732 1617612731 (DLC) 2010029781
ISBN 1617616354 (electronic book)
9781617616358 (electronic book)
9781617612732 (hardcover)
1617612731 (hardcover)