Experimenting on a Small Planet : A Scholarly Entertainment /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Copernicus,
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2013. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Language of Science
- Geologic Time
- Putting Numbers on Geologic Ages
- Discovering Past Climate Change
- The Nature of Energy Received from the Sun - The Analogies with Water Waves and Sound
- The Nature of Energy Received from the Sun - Figuring out what Light really is
- Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum
- The Origins of Climate Science - The Idea of Energy Balance
- The Climate System
- What's at the Bottom of Alice's Rabbit Hole?
- Energy from the Sun - Long-term Variations
- Solar Variability
- Albedo
- Air
- HOH - The Keystone of Earth's Climate
- Greenhouse Gasses
- The Circulation of Earth’s Atmosphere and Ocean
- The Biological Interactions
- Sea level
- Global Climate Change - the (Geologically) Immediate Past
- Is there an Analog for the Future Climate?
- The Instrumental Temperature Record
- What is Expected in the 21st Century
- Beyond 2100 - The Return to Warm Earth
- Titanic Timeline.