National Academy of Sciences Colloquium: Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change.

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Corporate Authors: National Academy of Sciences Colloquium: Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change Irvine, Calif., National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Format: Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : National Academy of Sciences, 1997
Subjects:
Climatic changes > Congresses.
Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry) > Congresses.
Carbon dioxide > Environmental aspects > Congresses.
Global warming > Congresses.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  • Contents
  • Climate change and carbon dioxide: An introduction
  • Tribute to Roger Revelle and his contribution to studies of carbon dioxide and climate change
  • Scripps and the War Years
  • The Scripps Directorship
  • The Heady Expedition Days
  • Greenhouse
  • THE MOHOLE PROJECT
  • Ocean Leadership
  • Building the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), 1954â€?1961
  • The Exile
  • Coming Home
  • A Personal Appreciation
  • Equilibration of the terrestrial water, nitrogen, and carbon cyclesModel and Methods
  • Equilibration of Nitrogen and Water Limitations
  • Conclusions
  • Potential responses of soil organic carbon to global environmental change
  • The Nature of Soil Organic Matter (SOM)
  • Tools to Study SOM
  • Prediction of the Response of Soil C to Global Change
  • Conclusions
  • Global air-sea flux of CO2: An estimate based on measurements of seaâ€?air pCO2 difference
  • Measurements
  • Adjustments and Resampling of the Data
  • Computational Method for Timeâ€?Space InterpolationTests for the Interpolated Values
  • Distribution of the CO2 Sink/Source Over the Global Oceans
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • Characteristics of the deep ocean carbon system during the past 150,000 years:CO2 distributions, deep water flow patterns, â€?
  • LGM Nutrient Distribution in Deep Waters of Major Ocean Basins: A Brief Overview
  • Rapid Climate Variability in the North Atlantic
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Direct observation of the oceanic CO2 increase revisited
  • Background
  • Concepts
  • Errors and Sensitivity
  • Oceanic ExampleConclusion
  • The observed global warming record: What does it tell us?
  • Data Sets
  • Anthropogenic Causes of Global Warming
  • Natural Causes of Global Warming
  • Conclusions
  • Possible forcing of global temperature by the oceanic tides
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Air Temperature Analysis and Sunspots
  • 3. A Proposed Mechanism for Lunisolar Tidal Forcing
  • 4. Periodicities of the Oceanic Tides
  • 5. Lunisolar Tides as a Forcing Agent of Temperature
  • 6. Further Implications of the Tidal Hypothesis
  • 7. Discussion and Conclusions
  • Spectrum of l00-kyr glacial cycle: Orbital inclination, not eccentricityClimate Proxy Records
  • Orbital Inclination: An Alternative 100-kyr Cycle
  • Bispectra
  • Linking Mechanisms
  • Discussion
  • Can increasing carbon dioxide cause climate change?
  • Current Forecasts
  • Observational Determinations of Climate Sensitivity
  • The Nature of Past Climate Change
  • Conclusion
  • Gases in ice cores
  • Physics of Gases in Glaciers
  • Reconstructions of the Anthropogenic Transient from Ice Core and Firn Air Chemistry

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