Climate change / Kaufui Vincent Wong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wong, Kau-Fui Vincent, author.

Series:

Environmental engineering collection. 2375-3633

Environmental engineering collection, 2375-3633

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 195 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : Momentum Press, 2016.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader.

Summary:

Climate Change is a collection of a number of papers as well as chapters about the science of the subject. This collection is meant to inflame and excite conversation among engineers, scientists, and society at large. It would serve as a catalyst for a three-credit course, as a relatively new engineering subject, for both engineering and nonengineering university students. As university education develops to better prepare future leaders to appreciate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, engineering courses for a mix of engineering and nonengineering majors are essential and so is the requirement for worthy textbooks. This monograph intends to be one of the useful tools available on this timely topic. The wide range of topics includes climate change and theories, the second law of thermodynamics, the global greenhouse effect, anthropogenic heat release, evidence around us owing to environmental change, sea level rise, jungles and forests, heat islands, atmospheric carbon dioxide removal via technology, nanotechnology, other innovations in response to climate change, and the energy-water-food nexus.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Climate change and theories

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Milankovitch theory

2.3 Sunspot cycle

2.4 Sea surface temperature and pressure oscillations in the Pacific Ocean

2.5 Sea surface temperature and pressure oscillations in the Atlantic Ocean

2.6 Discussion and conclusion

References

3. The second law of thermodynamics and heat discharge to the environment by human activities

3.1 Background

3.2 Discussion and proof

3.3 Conclusion

4. Greenhouse effect and climate change

4.1 Background

4.2 Understanding electromagnetic radiation

4.3 Planck's law and radiated energy

4.4 Greenhouse effect

4.5 Characteristics of a greenhouse gas

4.6 Evidence of global climate changes

5. Anthropogenic heat release into the environment

5.1 Introduction and statement

5.2 Hypothesis of method and the method

5.3 Heat based on world energy consumption

5.4 Heat from net electricity generation

5.5 Heat from oil refineries

5.6 Heat from garbage incineration

5.7 World output of carbon dioxide

5.8 Heat from formation of sulfur dioxide from combustion

5.9 Heat from animal bodies

5.10 Discussion and conclusion

5.11 Nomenclature

6. Climate change and all evidences of global warming

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Mean temperature changes

6.3 Arctic ice caps

6.4 Wildlife and extinction

6.5 Weather patterns

6.6 Solutions

7. Mitigation and adaptation responses to sea level rise

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Literature about rising seas

7.3 Mitigation responses

7.4 Adaptation responses

7.5 Discussion and conclusion

8. Freshwater discharges into the oceans

8.1 Background

8.2 Lower and higher latitudes

8.3 Groundwater discharge and anthropogenic contributions

9. Wealth of the oceans

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Current status

9.3 Literature survey

9.4 Research and development

9.5 Discussion and conclusion

10. Forests and jungles brake climate change

10.1 Photosynthesis

10.2 Costa Rica

10.3 Nicaragua

10.4 Haiti

10.5 The Amazon jungle

10.6 Indonesia

10.7 Discussion and conclusion

11. Atmospheric carbon dioxide removal via technology

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Carbon dioxide removal

11.3 Biochar

11.4 Artificial trees

11.5 Enhanced weathering

11.6 Bio-energy with carbon capture and storage

11.7 Carbon dioxide capture "trapping" procedures

11.8 Carbon dioxide sequestration procedures

11.9 Media for biological systems

11.10 Production of biofuel

11.11 Discussion and conclusion

12. Use of satellite images for observational and quantitative analysis of urban heat islands around the world

12.1 Introduction

12.2 Urban heat island effect

12.3 Landsat

12.4 Image selection

12.5 Thermal images

12.6 Quantitative differentiation

12.7 Discussion and conclusion

Thermal images of cities analyzed

Urban-rural differential images of cities analyzed

13. Climate change aggravates the energy-water-food nexus

13.1 Introduction

13.2 Energy-water-food nexus

13.3 The Himalayas

13.4 The effect of climate change on glaciers

13.5 The effect of climate change on the Indus River

13.6 The effect of climate change on the South Asian monsoons

13.7 Recommendations to enhance energy, water, food security

13.8 Discussion and conclusion

14. Innovations related to hydrology in response to climate change, a review

14.1 Introduction

14.2 Agricultural demands

14.3 Solar drip irrigation

14.4 Wastewater reuse

14.5 Optimal resource management

14.6 Nanotechnology

14.7 Conventional wastewater treatment

14.8 Membrane bioreactors

14.9 Biofilters

14.10 Groundwater

14.11 Comparison of MBRs and AS plants

14.12 Discussion and conclusion

15. A balanced view

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 27, 2016).

ISBN:

1-60650-848-2

OCLC:

936210038