Climate variability and extremes during the past 100 years
By: Stefan Brönnimann ... [et al.], editors
Series: Advances in global change research -- v. 33
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Dordrecht]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781402067655
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A focus on climate during the past 100 years / S. Brönnimann ... [et al.]; title: From the bottom to the stratosphere : arctic climate features as seen from the First International Polar Year (1882-1883) until the end of World War II / C. Lüdecke; title: Arctic sea ice data sets in the context of climate change during the 20th century / G.V. Alekseev ... [et al.]; title: The evolving SST record from ICOADS / S.D. Woodruff ... [et al.]; title: Upper-air temperature trends : current problems and some recent results / A.M. Sterin, V.M.Khan, and K.G. Rubinshtein; title: Atmospheric reanalyses and climate variations / S. Uppala ... [et al.]; title: Constructing climate quality atmospheric temperatures from satellite microwave measurements / C.A. Mears; title: Total ozone observations during the past 80 years / S. Brönnimann ... [et al.]; title: Arctic sea ice variability during the last half century / J. Stroeve and W. Maslowski; title: Decadal changes in surface radiative fluxes and their role in global climate change / M. Wild; title: Observed interdecadal changes in cloudiness : real or spurious? / J.R. Norris; title: The role of land-atmosphere interactions for climate variability in Europe / S.I. Seneviratne and R. Stöckli; title: Aerosol effects on precipitation locally and globally / U. Lohmann; title: Human activity and climate change in Africa / H. Paeth; title: Impacts of climate variability, trends and NAO on 20th century European plant phenology / A. Menzel, N. Estrella, and C. Schleip; title: Summer heat waves in Western Europe, their past change and future projections / P.M. Della-Marta and M. Beniston; title: Distribution changes of seasonal mean temperature in observations and climate change scenarios / S.C. Scherrer, M.A. Liniger, and C. Appenzeller; title: Long-term tropospheric ozone trends : a critical review / J. Staehelin and C. Schnadt Poberaj; title: Simulation of long-term evolution of stratospheric dynamics and chemistry : role of natural and anthropogenic forcings / M. Dameris and R. Deckert; title: Dynamical changes in the arctic and antarctic stratosphere during spring / U. Langematz and M. Kunze; title: Creating knowledge from the confrontation of observations and models : the case of stratospheric ozone / G.P. Brasseur; title: Response of the earth's atmosphere to the solar irradiance variability / E. Rozanov, T. Egorova, and W. Schmutz; title: Stratospheric ozone variations caused by solar proton events between 1963 and 2005 / C.H. Jackman and E.L. Fleming; title: Sunspots, the QBO, and the stratosphere in the north polar region : an update / K. Labitzke, M. Kunze, and S. Brönnimann.