The Legacy of Svante Arrhenius
Subtitle: understanding the greenhouse effect
By: edited by Henning Rodhe and Robert Charlson.
Contributors: Rodhe, H.; Charlson, Robert J.
Publisher: Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm University; Royal Swedish Academy., Stockholm
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Arrhenius, Svante, -- 1859-1927; Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric; Global temperature changes
Other titles: Understanding the greenhouse effect
Notes: "... published in order to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the publication of Svante Arrhenius' landmark paper on the greenhouse effect 'On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground.'"--foreword.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: In commemoration of Svante Arrhenius : scholar and teacher with a global perspective / H. Rodhe and R. Charlson; title: Svante Arrhenius and the greenhouse effect / H. Rodhe, R. Charlson and E. Crawford; title: Arrhenius' 1896 model of the greenhouse effect in context / E. Crawford; title: Carbon dioxide warming of the early Earth / G. Arrhenius; title: A review of the contemporary global carbon cycle and as seen a century ago by Arrhenius and Högbom / M. Heimann; title: Direct climate forcing by anthropogenic sulfate aerosols : the Arrhenius paradigm a century later / R. J. Charlson; title: Palaeoclimate sensitivity to COb2s and insolation / A. Berger and M. -F. Loutre; title: Greenhouse effect, atmospheric solar absorption and the Earth's radiation budget : from the Arrhenius-Lanley era to the 1990s / V. Ramanathan and A. M. Vogelmann; title: Early development in the study of greenhouse warming : the emergence of climate models / S. Manabe; title: Assessing the treatment of radiation in climate models / A. Slingo; title: A numerical simulation of anthropogenic climate change / L. Bengtsson; title: Climate research : the case for the social sciences / H. von Storch and N. Stehr; title: From Arrhenius to megascience : interplay between science and public decisionmaking / A. Elzinga; title: On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature on the ground / Svante Arrhenius.