Climate Alert : Climate Change Monitoring and Strategy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

You, Yuzhu.

Contributor:

Henderson-Sellers, Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climatic changes.

Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric.

Environmental indicators.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Climate Alert

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2010.

Summary:

Climate Alert presents scholarly research on climate change monitoring and strategy. It covers a diverse range of today's issues and seeks to promote climate change monitoring as an essential tool in both effective mitigation and urgent adaptation.

Contents:

Intro

3. Introduction to the book chapters

Preface

About the authors

1 Monitor climate, monitor changeYuzhu You

2 How seriously are we taking climate change? Monitoring climate change communicationAnn Henderson-S

3 Physical monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef to understand ecological responses to climate change

4 Are the deep waters of the Weddell Sea still warming?Robin Robertson

5 Monitoring the atmosphere and hydrologyDavid Walland

6 Impact of climate change stressors on marine invertebrate life histories with a focus on the Mollu

7 Climate impact on hypersalinity in an Australian coastal bayJoachim Ribbe

8 Indonesian Throughflow: PACific Source Water INvestigation (PACSWIN) An international ocean climat

9 The Australian Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) and the regional implementation in New So

10 South Pacific Ocean dynamics: potential for enhancing sea level and climate forecastsNeil J Holbr

11 Future cyclone season characteristics from a thermodynamic model driven by coupled model climate

12 Assessing climate change adaptation options for local governmentS Trück, W Bradford, A Henderson-

Index

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Oceanographic Moorings

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Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781743321119

1743321112

9781743328170

1743328176

OCLC:

1260340834