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- Explains to the reader the problems associated with making reliable predictions of future climate changes, demonstrating the importance of the global carbon cycle in this regard
- Highlights the roles of a wide range of processes in acting as both sources and sinks for atmospheric carbon dioxide
- Reviews the latest, most up-to-date attempts to model various ecosystems and their role in the global carbon cycle
- Shows how using current models various scenarios for anthropogenic impacts on the climate may be assessed
Part of the book series: Springer Praxis Books (PRAXIS)
Part of the book sub series: Environmental Sciences (ENVIRONSCI)
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Professor Kondratyev and his team consider the concept of global warming due to the greenhouse effect and put forward a new approach to the problem of assessing the impact of anthropogenic processes. Considering data on both sources and sinks for atmospheric carbon and various conceptual schemes of the global carbon dioxide cycle, they suggest a new approach to studies of the problem of the greenhouse effect. They assess the role of different types of soil and vegetation in the assimilation of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and discuss models of the atmosphere ocean gas exchange and its role in the carbon dioxide cycle, paying special attention to the role of the Arctic Basin. The authors also consider models of other global atmospheric cycles for a range of atmospheric constituents, and conclude by drawing together a range of scenarios on modelling the global carbon cycle.
Keywords
- Biocenoses
- Biogeochemical Cycles
- Biospheric Sources
- Carbon Cycle
- Global Change
- Land Surface Processes
- Tundra-Taiga-System
- climate change
Authors and Affiliations
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Ecological Safety, Russian Academy of Sciences Research Center of, St. Petersburg, Russia
Kirill Y. Kondratyev
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Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences Inst. Radioengineering and, Fryazino, Russia
Vladimir F. Krapivin
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
Authors: Kirill Y. Kondratyev, Vladimir F. Krapivin
Series Title: Springer Praxis Books
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-00809-5Published: 24 September 2003
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-05642-0Published: 15 December 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 368