Understanding Global Climate Change: Modelling the Climatic System and Human Impacts

"Climate change is far more than just global warming due to atmospheric greenhouse gases including CO2. The availability of climate-related data and computer modelling is a key factor in observing and analyzing climate change today. In order to understand the nature of climate change it is necessary to consider the whole climatic system, its complexity, and the ways in which natural and anthropogenic activities act and influence that system and the environment. Using a combination of ground data, satellite data, and human impacts, this second edition discusses the state of climate research today, at a global scale, and establishes a background for future discussions on climate change"--

Computers & Technology

Cracknell, Arthur P.

Varotsos, Costas A.

Programming

CRC-Press

Climate change, a familiar term today, is far more than just global warming due to atmospheric greenhouse gases including CO2. In order to understand the nature of climate change, it is necessary to consider the whole climatic system, its complexity, and the ways in which natural and anthropogenic activities act and influence that system and the environment. Over the past 20 years since the first edition of Understanding Global Climate Change was published, not only has the availability of climate-related data and computer modelling changed, but our perceptions of it and its impact have changed as well. Using a combination of ground data, satellite data, and human impacts, this second edition discusses the state of climate research today, on a global scale, and establishes a background for future discussions on climate change. This book is an essential reference text, relevant to any and all who study climate and climate change. 
Features 
Provides a thought-provoking and original approach to the science of climate. 
Emphasises that there are many factors contributing to the causation of climate change. 
Clarifies that while anthropogenic generation of carbon dioxide is important, it is only one of several human activities contributing to climate change. 
Considers climate change responses needed to be undertaken by politicians and society at national and global levels. 
Totally revised and updated with state-of-the-art satellite data and climate models currently in operation around the globe.

Microwave Remote Sensing Tools in Environmental Science

This book gives new insight to the study of the global environmental changes using the ecoinformatics and microwave remote sensing tools together with the adaptive-evolutionary technology of geoinformation monitoring. The main advantage of this book consists in the accumulation of the interdisciplinary scientific knowledge for the parameterization of the global biogeochemical cycles and other environmental processes in the context of globalization and sustainable development. In this regard, the crucial global problems of the dynamics of the climate-nature-society system have been considered and the key problems of ensuring its sustainable development have been addressed. An analysis of the present trend in changing ecological systems has been discussed, including different types of forest ecosystems and ocean aquatories. The emphasis has been given to the accomplishment of the global geoinformation monitoring, which could provide a reliable control of the environmental processes development with reliable prognostic estimates of the consequences of human activities. A new approach to the numerical modelling of the climate-nature-society system has been presented and demonstrative results have been given about the modelling of the dynamics of this system&#8223;s characteristics, in cases of realization of some scenarios of the anthropogenic impacts to the biogeochemical cycles, the land ecosystems and oceans. Methods and algorithms for the big data manipulation and processing in the remote sensing environmental monitoring systems have been described.

Krapivin, Vladimir F.

Networking & Cloud Computing

Springer

This book provides new insights on the study of global environmental changes using the ecoinformatics tools and the adaptive-evolutionary technology of geoinformation monitoring. The main advantage of this book is that it gathers and presents extensive interdisciplinary expertise in the parameterization of global biogeochemical cycles and other environmental processes in the context of globalization and sustainable development. In this regard, the crucial global problems concerning the dynamics of the nature-society system are considered and the key problems of ensuring the system’s sustainable development are studied. A new approach to the numerical modeling of the nature-society system is proposed and results are provided on modeling the dynamics of the system’s characteristics with regard to scenarios of anthropogenic impacts on biogeochemical cycles, land ecosystems and oceans. The main purpose of this book is to develop a universal guide to information-modeling technologies for assessing the function of environmental subsystems under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions.

New Ecoinformatics Tools in Environmental Science: Applications and Decision-making (Environmental Earth Sciences)

Soldatov, Vladimir Yu.

Software

This book provides new insights on the study of global environmental changes using the ecoinformatics tools and the adaptive-evolutionary technology of geoinformation monitoring. The main advantage of this book is that it gathers and presents extensive interdisciplinary expertise in the parameterization of global biogeochemical cycles and other environmental processes in the context of globalization and sustainable development. In this regard, the crucial global problems concerning the dynamics of the nature-society system are considered and the key problems of ensuring the system’s sustainable development are studied. A new approach to the numerical modeling of the nature-society system is proposed and results are provided on modeling the dynamics of the system’s characteristics with regard to scenarios of anthropogenic impacts on biogeochemical cycles, land ecosystems and oceans. The main purpose of this book is to develop a universal guide to information-modeling technologies for assessing the function of environmental subsystems under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions.

Opening with a survey of contemporary global ecodynamics, including its basic components, this book goes on to discuss greenhouse effect problems in the context of global carbon cycle dynamics. The coverage includes land ecosystem changes, air-sea exchange models, high-latitude environmental dynamics, and a discussion of basic aspects of global environmental modelling and relevant monitoring systems. The volume concludes by examining society systems with emphasis on the problems of sustainable development.

Global Ecodynamics

Business & Money

Kondratyev, Kirill Y.

Savinykh, V. P.

Kondratyev, Kiril

Krapivin, Vladimir

Savinykh, V.

Economics

Opening with a survey of contemporary global ecodynamics, including its basic components, this book goes on to discuss greenhouse effect problems in the context of global carbon cycle dynamics. The coverage includes land ecosystem changes, air-sea exchange models, high-latitude environmental dynamics, and a discussion of basic aspects of global environmental modelling and relevant monitoring systems. The volume concludes by examining society systems with emphasis on the problems of sustainable development.

Global Ecodynamics: A Multidimensional Analysis

Kondratyev, Kirill Y. Ya.

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Understanding Global Climate Change: Modelling the Climatic System and Human Impacts

Understanding Global Climate Change: Modelling the Climatic System and Human Impacts

Microwave Remote Sensing Tools in Environmental Science

Microwave Remote Sensing Tools in Environmental Science

New Ecoinformatics Tools in Environmental Science: Applications and Decision-making (Environmental Earth Sciences)

New Ecoinformatics Tools in Environmental Science: Applications and Decision-making (Environmental Earth Sciences)

Global Ecodynamics

Global Ecodynamics: A Multidimensional Analysis