Mélières / Maréchal Climate Change

Past, Present, and Future
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-118-70849-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten, E-Book

This book is designed for first- and second-year universitystudents (and their instructors) in earth science, environmentalscience, and physical geography degree programmes worldwide. Thesummaries at the end of each section constitute essential readingfor policy makers and planners. It provides a simple but masterlyaccount, with a minimum of equations, of how the Earth'sclimate system works, of the physical processes that have givenrise to the long sequence of glacial and interglacial periods ofthe Quaternary, and that will continue to cause the climate toevolve. Its straightforward and elegant description, with anabundance of well chosen illustrations, focuses on different timescales, and includes the most recent research in climate science bythe United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC). It shows how it is human behaviour that will determinewhether or not the present century is a turning point to a newclimate, unprecedented on Earth in the last several millionyears.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mélières, Marie-Antoinette

Maréchal, Chloé

Über Autor(innen)

Marie-Antoinette Mélières, Docteur d'Etatin physics, taught basic physics and, later, climate andenvironmental science at Joseph Fourier University of Grenoble 1and at the University of Savoie. Her research has covered variousareas ranging from molecular spectroscopy and atmospheric physicsto environmental and climate science. In 1995 she established thenewsletter Global Change, published by the French NationalCommittee on Climate Change, under the authority of the Academy ofSciences. The Committee is the French branch of the fourinternational programs IGBP, WCRP, IHDP and Diversitas. Shecontinued to edit this publication until 2008.
Chloé Maréchal, PhD, geochemist, is Maîtrede Conférences in the Observatoire des Sciences del'Univers at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, where sheteaches Earth Sciences at first university degree level and atMasters level. In her research into the biogeochemical cycles ofcopper and zinc in the Earth's outer layers, she established aprotocol for using isotopes of these elements by plasma-source massspectrometry and investigated their isotopic fractionation inmarine sediments, as well as in soils affected by human activity.She also worked on the geochemical cycle of boron, using itsisotopic signal in marine biogenic carbonates as tool inpaleo-oceanographic reconstructions.