Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast - Couverture souple

Archer, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0470943416 ISBN 13 : 9780470943410

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2011

Synopsis

Based on the author's highly successful undergraduate course taught at the University of Chicago, Global Warming presents the processes of climate change and climate stability. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, this Second Edition not only summarizes scientific evidence, but also presents economic and political issues related to global warming.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Archer is the author of Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, published by John Wiley and Sons and a book for popular audiences called The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 years of the Earth's Climate, published by Princeton University Press and winner of the 2009 Walter P. Kistler Award, The Foundation for the Future.
Since 1993, Archer has been a professor in the department of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago and has worked on a wide range of topics pertaining to the global carbon cycle and its relation to the global climate, with a special focus on ocean sedimentary processes such as CaCO3 dissolution and methane hydrate formation and their impact on the evolution of atmospheric CO2.
He currently teaches classes on global warming, environmental chemistry and global geochemical cycles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0470943416
• ISBN 13: 9780470943410
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 224
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