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Titel: The Global Carbon Cycle
Zustand: New
Autor: David Archer
Produktart: Taschenbuch
ISBN-10: 0691144141
EAN: 9780691144146
ISBN: 9780691144146
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Release date: 28/11/2010
Description: "The Global Carbon Cycle" is a short introduction to this essential geochemical driver of the Earth's climate system, written by one of the world's leading climate-science experts. In this one-of-a-kind primer, David Archer engages readers in clear and simple terms about the many ways the global carbon cycle is woven into our climate system. He begins with a concise overview of the subject, and then looks at the carbon cycle on three different time scales, describing how the cycle interacts with climate in very distinct ways in each. On million-year time scales, feedbacks in the carbon cycle stabilize Earth's climate and oxygen concentrations. Archer explains how on hundred-thousand-year glacial/interglacial time scales, the carbon cycle in the ocean amplifies climate change, and how, on the human time scale of decades, the carbon cycle has been dampening climate change by absorbing fossil-fuel carbon dioxide into the oceans and land biosphere. A central question of the book is whether the carbon cycle could once again act to amplify climate change in centuries to come, for example through melting permafrost peatlands and methane hydrates."The Global Carbon Cycle" features a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, and explanations of equations, as well as a forward-looking discussion of open questions about the global carbon cycle.
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellungsland und -region: US
Höhe: 203mm
Länge: 127mm
Gewicht: 227g
Buchreihe: Princeton Primers in Climate

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