Geosphere-Biosphere Interactions and Climate

Stimulating 2002 discussion of the interaction between the geosphere/biosphere and climate for researchers and graduate students.

Lennart O. Bengtsson (Edited by), Claus U. Hammer (Edited by)

9780521782388, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 October 2001

320 pages
26.3 x 18.5 x 2.4 cm, 0.756 kg

"The contributions span the full range of information and utility.... The book offers a wonderful chance for a glimpse of some distinguished scholars and their interpretations of the current biophysical status of the Earth." The Quarterly Review of Biology

Geosphere-Biosphere Interactions and Climate brings together many of the world's leading environmental scientists to discuss the interaction between the geosphere/biosphere and climate. The volume was first published in 2002 and arises from a working group of the prestigious Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the International Geosphere–Biosphere Programme. The chapters give an excellent summary of the understanding of the climate and environment by understanding Earth's past, human influence on the climate, a description of climate and its relation to the Earth's surface, ocean, and atmosphere, and future predictions of climate variability. This volume will be invaluable for researchers and graduate students in climate studies who wish to gain a multidisciplinary perspective of our current understanding of the interaction between the geosphere/biosphere and climate.

Foreword
Introduction L. O. Bengtsson and C. U. Hammer
1. The Antarctic ozone hole: a man-caused chemical instability in the stratosphere - what should we learn from it? P. J. Crutzen
2. Feedbacks and interactions between global change, atmospheric chemistry, and the biosphere M. O. Andraea
3. Atmospheric CO2 variations: response to natural and anthropogenic earth system forcings I. Fung
4. Modelling and evaluating terrestrial biospheric exchanges of water, carbon dioxide and oxygen in the global climate system M. Heimann
5. Carbon futures W. S. Broecker
6. Global climate change in the human perspective S. H. Schneider
7. Earth system models and the global biogeochemical cycles D. Schimel
8. The role of CO2, sea-level and vegetation during the Milankovitch-forced glacial-interglacial cycles A. Berger
9. Non-linearities in the earth system: the ocean's role T. F. Stocker
10. Simulations of the climate of the Holocene: perspectives gained with models of different complexity J. E. Kutzbach
11. Interactions of climate change and the terrestrial biosphere I. C. Prentice
12. The record of paleoclimatic change and its greenhouse implications W. R. Peltier
13. Long-term stability of earth's climate: the faint young sun problem revisited J. F. Kasting
14. Physical and chemical properties of the glacial ocean J. C. Duplessy
15. Ice core records and relevance for future climate variations J. Jouzel
16. Towards a new approach to climate impact studies W. Steffen
17. Future research objectives M. Heimann
18. Research objectives of the World Climate Research Programme H. Grassl
Index.

Subject Areas: Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ], The environment [RN], Earth sciences [RB], Ecological science, the Biosphere [PSAF]