Human Impacts on Weather and Climate

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-521-49592-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 604 g

As the world's population rises, there is increasing evidence that human activities are having a significant impact on the weather and climate, from a local to global scale. Human Impacts on Weather and Climate is a non-mathematical presentation of the basic physical concepts of how human activity may affect weather and climate. This book assesses the current hypotheses, and examines whether the impacts are measurable. Included are: critical evaluations of the scientific status of weather modification by cloud seeding; human impacts on regional weather and climate; and human impacts on global climate, including the greenhouse gas hypothesis. Discussions also focus on the modern philosophy of science and its application to determining human impacts on weather and climate. Human Impacts on Weather and Climate will be invaluable for upper-division undergraduate and graduate courses in meteorology, geophysics, and earth and atmospheric science, as well as for policymakers and readers with an interest in how humans are affecting the atmosphere. An extensive reference list is included.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cotton, William R.

Pielke, Roger A.

Pielke, Sr, Roger A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. The Rise and Fall of the Science of Weather Modification by Cloud Seeding; 1. The rise of the science of weather modification by cloud seeding; 2. The glory years of weather modification; 3. The fall of the science of weather modification by cloud seeding; Part II. Human Impacts on Regional Weather and Climate; 4. Anthropogenic emissions of aerosols and gases; 5. Urban-induced changes in precipitation and weather; 6. Other landuse changes; 7. Concluding remarks regarding human impacts on regional weather and climate; Part III. Human Impacts on Global Climate; 8. Fundamental principles important to understanding global climate change; 9. Climatic effects of anthropogenic aerosol; 10. Nuclear winter; 11. The greenhouse gas theory; 12. Human impacts on biosphere forcing of climatic variability; Epilogue.

Über Autor(innen)

Pielke, Sr, Roger A.
Roger Pielke is a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and a Senior Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University, served as Colorado State Climatologist from 1999 to 2006, and is on the Graduate Faculty of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. As well as this book, he has authored Mesoscale Meteorological Modeling (Academic Press, 1984 and 2002), The Hurricane (Routledge, 1990), Hurricanes: Their Nature and Impacts on Society (John Wiley, 1997, co-authored with R. A. Pielke, Jr), and was co-chief editor (with R. A. Pielke, Jr) of Storms (Routledge, 1999). He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society and a former co-chief editor of the Journal of Atmospheric Science. Dr Pielke has published over 350 papers in peer-reviewed journals, fifty chapters in books, and has co-edited nine books.