Earth?s climate response to a changing Sun
Publisher: EDP SCIENCES
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9782759817337
Subjects: Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
Description: For centuries, scientists have been fascinated by the role of the Sun in the Earth?s climate system. Recent discoveries, outlined in this book, have gradually unveiled a complex picture, in which our variable Sun affects the climate variability via a number of subtle pathways, the implications of which are only now becoming clear.

This handbook provides the scientifically curious, from undergraduate students to policy makers with a complete and accessible panorama of our present understanding of the Sun-climate connection. 61 experts from different communities have contributed to it, which reflects the highly multidisciplinary nature of this topic.

The handbook is organised as a mosaic of short chapters, each of which addresses a specific aspect, and can be read independently. The reader will learn about the assumptions, the data, the models, and the unknowns  behind each mechanism by which solar variability may impact climate variability.
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