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5 - Climate Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2019

Chester F. Ropelewski  and
Phillip A. Arkin
Phillip A. Arkin
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
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Climate Analysis , pp. 104 - 126
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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Climate in Earth History: Studies in Geophysics, National Academy Press, May be downloaded from www.nap.edu/catalog/11798/climate-in-earth-history-studies-in-geophysics.Google Scholar
Fleming, J. R., 2007: The Callendar Effect: The Life and Work of Guy Stewart Callendar (1898–1964), published by the American Meteorological Society, 176. (The biography of the first to link rising global temperatures to increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide.) History of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change www.ipcc.ch/organization/organization_history.shtml.Google Scholar
The Greenhouse Effect online http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/djj/book/bookchap7.html.Google Scholar
Lorenz, E. 1970: Climate Change as a Mathematical Problem, Journal of Applied Meteorology, 9, 325–329.2.0.CO;2>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Karl, T. R. (ed.) 1996: Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 648 pp.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Report prepared for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change by Working Group I Houghton, J. T., Jenkins, G. J., and Ephraums, J. J. (eds.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Great Britain, New York, NY, USA and Melbourne, Australia 410 pp, chapters 1 and 2. Also online at www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_ipcc_first_assessment_1990_wg1.shtml.Google Scholar

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