The United Nations Environment Program and the World Meterological Organization set up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 to provide an authoritative international consensus of scientific opinion on climate change. This report, prepared by IPCC Working Groups I and II, reviews the latest scientific evidence on the following key topics: radiative forcing of climate change; the latest values of global warming potential (used to compare the potential effect on future climate of different anthropogenic factors); the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere; and an evaluation of scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers in climatology and environmental science, as well as environmental and science policy, will benefit from this book.
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This report reviews the latest scientific evidence on radiative forcing of climate change; the latest values of global warming potential; the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere; scenarios of future greenhouse gas emissions.
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A good short introduction to radiative forcing,
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This review is from: Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and an Evaluation of the IPCC 1992 IS92 Emission Scenarios (Paperback)
The IPCC-1994 follow up on the first two reports of the
IPCC working group one (WG1) reports on climatic change
gives a good compendium of our knowledge on anthropogenic
(and natural) radiative forcing of the atmosphere and the
climate system.
The book fills the hole that new findings in the last couple
of years have created. It will be mostly for specialists
that have to know things before the rest. If you do not
belong to this group, wait for the 1995-IPCC report due in
the beginning of 1996.
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future emission estimates, stratospheric adjustment, forcing indices, specialised end use, different carbon cycle models, adjusted forcing, terrestrial sink processes, possible emission reductions, stratospheric removal, published scenarios, stratospheric water vapour, tropospheric ozone changes, sulphate distribution, anthropogenic sulphate aerosols, fossil carbon emissions, fertilisation effect, accumulated emissions, net irradiance, industrial halocarbons, aerosol number concentration, cloud droplet concentration, terrestrial exchanges, stabilisation levels, lower stratospheric temperatures, population growth assumptions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Southern Hemisphere, Working Group, Cambridge University Press, Eastern Europe, Year Figure, Mauna Loa, Montreal Protocol, New York, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Supplementary Table, Soviet Union, Latin America, Soil Pollution, South Pole, United States, North America, Framework Convention, Intergovernmental Panel, North Atlantic, World Meteorological Organisation, The Supplementary Report, World Energy Council, Year Year, Cape Grim, Climate Convention New!
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future emission estimates, stratospheric adjustment, forcing indices, specialised end use, different carbon cycle models, adjusted forcing, terrestrial sink processes, possible emission reductions, stratospheric removal, published scenarios, stratospheric water vapour, tropospheric ozone changes, sulphate distribution, anthropogenic sulphate aerosols, fossil carbon emissions, fertilisation effect, accumulated emissions, net irradiance, industrial halocarbons, aerosol number concentration, cloud droplet concentration, terrestrial exchanges, stabilisation levels, lower stratospheric temperatures, population growth assumptions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Southern Hemisphere, Working Group, Cambridge University Press, Eastern Europe, Year Figure, Mauna Loa, Montreal Protocol, New York, Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Supplementary Table, Soviet Union, Latin America, Soil Pollution, South Pole, United States, North America, Framework Convention, Intergovernmental Panel, North Atlantic, World Meteorological Organisation, The Supplementary Report, World Energy Council, Year Year, Cape Grim, Climate Convention New!
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- The Carbon Cycle by T. M. L. Wigley on 10 pages
- The Global Carbon Cycle (Nato a S I Series Series I, Global Environmental Change) by Italy) NATO Advanced Study Institute on Contemporary Global Carbon Cycle (1991 : Il Ciocco on 5 pages
- Air-Sea Exchange of Gases and Particles (NATO Science Series C: (closed)) by P.S. Liss on page 157, and page 161
- Chemistry of the Natural Atmosphere, Volume 71, Second Edition (International Geophysics) by Peter Warneck on page 125, and page 161
- Working Papers by Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics on page 302, and page 303
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- Climate Change 1995: The Science of Climate Change: Contribution of Working Group I to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by John T. Houghton on 9 pages
- Special Report on Emissions Scenarios: A Special Report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by Nebojsa Nakicenovic on page 101, page 158, and page 160
- Biogeochemistry : An Analysis of Global Change by William H. Schlesinger in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Technology and Global Change by Arnulf Grübler in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Inverse Problems in Atmospheric Constituent Transport (Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series) by I. G. Enting in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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