- EAN13
- 9782759820214
- Éditeur
- EDP sciences
- Date de publication
- 30/06/2016
- Collection
- Hors Collection
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
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Earth's climate response to a changing Sun
A review of the current understanding by the European research group TOSCA
Jean Lilensten
EDP sciences
Hors Collection
Livre numérique
Autre version disponible
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Papier - EDP sciences 65,00
For centuries, scientists have been fascinated by the role of the Sun in the
Earth’s climate system. Recent
discoveries, outlined in this book, have gradually unveiled a complex picture,
in which our variable Sun
affects the climate variability via a number of subtle pathways, the
implications of which are only now
becoming clear.
This handbook provides the scientifically curious, from undergraduate students
to policy makers with a complete
and accessible panorama of our present understanding of the Sun-climate
connection. 61 experts from
different communities have contributed to it, which reflects the highly
multidisciplinary nature of this topic.
The handbook is organised as a mosaic of short chapters, each of which
addresses a specific aspect, and
can be read independently. The reader will learn about the assumptions, the
data, the models, and the
unknowns behind each mechanism by which solar variability may impact climate
variability. None of these
mechanisms can adequately explain global warming observed since the 1950s.
However, several of them
do impact climate variability, in particular on a regional level. This
handbook aims at addressing these issues
in a factual way, and thereby challenge the reader to sharpen his/her critical
thinking in a debate that is
frequently distorted by unfounded claims.
Earth’s climate system. Recent
discoveries, outlined in this book, have gradually unveiled a complex picture,
in which our variable Sun
affects the climate variability via a number of subtle pathways, the
implications of which are only now
becoming clear.
This handbook provides the scientifically curious, from undergraduate students
to policy makers with a complete
and accessible panorama of our present understanding of the Sun-climate
connection. 61 experts from
different communities have contributed to it, which reflects the highly
multidisciplinary nature of this topic.
The handbook is organised as a mosaic of short chapters, each of which
addresses a specific aspect, and
can be read independently. The reader will learn about the assumptions, the
data, the models, and the
unknowns behind each mechanism by which solar variability may impact climate
variability. None of these
mechanisms can adequately explain global warming observed since the 1950s.
However, several of them
do impact climate variability, in particular on a regional level. This
handbook aims at addressing these issues
in a factual way, and thereby challenge the reader to sharpen his/her critical
thinking in a debate that is
frequently distorted by unfounded claims.
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