National Academy of Sciences colloquium : carbon dioxide and climate change.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Carbon dioxide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (110 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Carbon dioxide and climate change

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : The Academy, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

""PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA""; ""Contents""; ""Climate change and carbon dioxide: An introduction""; ""Tribute to Roger Revelle and his contribution to studies of carbon dioxide and climate change""; ""Scripps and the War Years""; ""The Scripps Directorship""; ""The Heady Expedition Days""; ""Greenhouse""; ""THE MOHOLE PROJECT""; ""Ocean Leadership""; ""Building the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), 1954�1961""; ""The Exile""; ""Coming Home""; ""A Personal Appreciation""

""Equilibration of the terrestrial water, nitrogen, and carbon cycles""""Model and Methods""; ""Equilibration of Nitrogen and Water Limitations""; ""Conclusions""; ""Potential responses of soil organic carbon to global environmental change""; ""The Nature of Soil Organic Matter (SOM)""; ""Tools to Study SOM""; ""Prediction of the Response of Soil C to Global Change""; ""Conclusions""; ""Global air-sea flux of CO2: An estimate based on measurements of sea�air pCO2 difference""; ""Measurements""; ""Adjustments and Resampling of the Data""

""Computational Method for Time�Space Interpolation""""Tests for the Interpolated Values""; ""Distribution of the CO2 Sink/Source Over the Global Oceans""; ""Summary and Conclusions""; ""Characteristics of the deep ocean carbon system during the past 150,000 years:CO2 distributions,deep water flow patterns,�""; ""LGM Nutrient Distribution in Deep Waters of Major Ocean Basins: A Brief Overview""; ""Rapid Climate Variability in the North Atlantic""; ""Concluding Remarks""; ""Direct observation of the oceanic CO2 increase revisited""; ""Background""; ""Concepts""; ""Errors and Sensitivity""

""Oceanic Example""""Conclusion""; ""The observed global warming record: What does it tell us?""; ""Data Sets""; ""Anthropogenic Causes of Global Warming""; ""Natural Causes of Global Warming""; ""Conclusions""; ""Possible forcing of global temperature by the oceanic tides""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. Air Temperature Analysis and Sunspots""; ""3. A Proposed Mechanism for Lunisolar Tidal Forcing""; ""4. Periodicities of the Oceanic Tides""; ""5. Lunisolar Tides as a Forcing Agent of Temperature""; ""6. Further Implications of the Tidal Hypothesis""; ""7. Discussion and Conclusions""

""Spectrum of l00-kyr glacial cycle: Orbital inclination, not eccentricity""""Climate Proxy Records""; ""Orbital Inclination: An Alternative 100-kyr Cycle""; ""Bispectra""; ""Linking Mechanisms""; ""Discussion""; ""Can increasing carbon dioxide cause climate change?""; ""Current Forecasts""; ""Observational Determinations of Climate Sensitivity""; ""The Nature of Past Climate Change""; ""Conclusion""; ""Gases in ice cores""; ""Physics of Gases in Glaciers""; ""Reconstructions of the Anthropogenic Transient from Ice Core and Firn Air Chemistry""

""Glacial�Interglacial Changes in Atmospheric Chemistry Recorded in Ice Cores""

Notes:

"Reprinted from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 94, pp. 8273-8377, 1997, and includes articles based on the National Academy of Sciences' colloquium on Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change, held in Irvine, California, November 13-15, 1995"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-18699-2

9786610186990

0-309-56906-0

OCLC:

923269639