Modern Science of Climate Changes.

Intro -- MODERN SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGES -- MODERN SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGES -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE -- 1.2. WEATHER -- 1.3. WEATHER FORECASTING -- 1.4. CLIMATE AND CLIMATE CHANGE -- 1.5. GLOBAL WARMING -- 1.6. GLOBAL WARMING AND ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE -- Chapter 2: BASIC SCIENCE ON WHICH THE CLIMATE SYSTEM OPERATES -- 2.1. STRUCTURE AND MOTIONS OF THE CLIMATE SYSTEM -- 2.2. ENERGY INPUT AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE CRUST-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM -- 2.3. GENERAL CIRCULATIONS OF THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEANS -- 2.4. ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCES ON THE CLIMATE SYSTEM -- Chapter 3: SOLAR ACTIVITY -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION -- 3.2. HOW SOLAR ACTIVITY IS MEASURED -- 3.3. THE SOLAR WIND -- 3.4. SOLAR CYCLES -- 3.5. MATHEMATICAL REPRESENTATION OF SOLAR ACTIVITY -- Chapter 4: HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGES UP TO 1990S -- 4.1. INTRODUCTION -- 4.2. SCIENCE BASED MOSTLY ON THE EARTH'S ORBITAL GEOMETRY -- 4.3. SCIENCE BASED ON DIRECT EFFECTS OF SOLAR ACTIVITY -- 4.4. SCIENCE BASED ON INDIRECT EFFECTS OF SOLAR ACTIVITY -- 4.5. SCIENCE BASED ON VOLCANIC ACTIVITY -- 4.6. SCIENCE BASED ON HUMAN ACTIVITIES -- Chapter 5: MODERN SCIENCE OF NATURAL CLIMATE CHANGES -- 5.1. INTRODUCTION -- 5.2. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW SCIENCE -- 5.3. SOLAR WIND AND SOLAR ACTIVITY INFLUENCES ON THE TROPOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION -- 5.4. RECORDS-BASED DOMINANCE OF SOLAR ACTIVITY ON CLIMATE CHANGES -- 5.5. CAUSES OF RAPID CLIMATE CHANGES -- 5.6. RELATION BETWEEN PERIODS OF ISRC CYCLES AND AMPLITUDE OF ASSOCIATED SAS TEMPERATURE OSCILLATIONS -- 5.7 PREDICTION OF FUTURE GLOBAL TEMPERATURE VARIATIONS USING EQUATION (5.18).

5.8 ACTUAL SHAPES OF TERRESTRIAL TEMPERATURE VARIATION PATTERNS ASSOCIATED WITH CYCLIC VARIATIONS IN INCIDENT SOLAR ENERGY -- 5.9 THE OZONE HOLE AND SOLAR ACTIVITY -- Chapter 6: MODERN SCIENCE OF HUMAN-INDUCED CLIMATE CHANGES -- 6.1. INTRODUCTION -- 6.2. CLIMATIC INFLUENCE OF ANTHROPOGENIC GREENHOUSE GASES -- 6.3. CLIMATIC INFLUENCE OF HUMAN-GENERATED HEAT -- 6.4. CLIMATIC INFLUENCE OF ELECTRIC AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES -- Chapter 7: MODERN SCIENCE OF NATURAL AND HUMAN-INDUCED CHANGES IN EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANIC ACTIVITY AND RELATED CLIMATE -- 7.1. INTRODUCTION -- 7.2. HOW NATURE AND HUMAN ACTIVITIES INFLUENCE EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANIC ACTIVITY AND RELATED CLIMATE -- 7.3. NEW ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS THAT CAN BE CAUSED BY HUMAN ACTIVITIES -- 7.4. COMPARISON BETWEEN A TV SYSTEM AND THE ASTHENOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM -- 7.5. CORRELATION BETWEEN SURFACE TEMPERATURE AND EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY -- Chapter 8: A MODERN METHOD FOR PREDICTING CLIMATE CHANGES -- 8.1. INTRODUCTION -- 8.2. THE ENVELOPE - TRACING METHOD (ETM) -- 8.3. Predicted Future Deadly Droughts -- APPENDIX MATHEMATICAL DERIVATION OF THE MERIDIONAL GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL IN FIGURE 5.11 -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

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