Anthropogenic Climate Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. The Climate System

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Global and Regional Climate System

      • Hans von Storch

      Pages 3-36

   3. Three Dimensional Numerical Simulation of Climate: The Fundamentals

      • Warren Washington

      Pages 37-59

   4. Hydrological Modeling from Local to Global Scales

      • Eric F. Wood

      Pages 61-81

   5. Natural Climate Variability and Concepts of Natural Climate Variability

      • Jin-Song von Storch

      Pages 83-135

3. Climate Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Weather Modification by Cloud Seeding — A Status Report 1989–1997

      • William R. Cotton

      Pages 139-159

   3. The Detection of Climate Change

      • Francis W. Zwiers

      Pages 161-206

4. Implications

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207

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   2. Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Multi-Actor Strategies of Optimizing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

      • Klaus Hasselmann

      Pages 209-256

   3. “Mastering” the Global Commons

      • Nico Stehr

      Pages 257-280

   4. Climate Science and the Transfer of Knowledge to Public and Political Realms

      • Dennis Bray, Hans von Storch

      Pages 281-322

5. Back Matter

   Pages 323-351

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GKSS SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH The National Research Laboratory GKSS (member of the Hermann von Helmholtz-Association of German Reserach Centres) located in Geesthacht, near Hamburg, is engaged in environmental research. The main interest of the research center focuses on regional climatology and climate dynamics, interdecadal variations in the state of the Baltic and North Sea and related estuaries, and the flow ofheavy metals, nutrients, and other materials in river catchments to the coastal zones. This research aims at-developing an under­ standing ofchanges in the environment, both as a result ofinternal (natural) dynamics and as a result of anthropogenic interference. In an effort to dis­ seminate the results of these research activities, as well as to initiate a broad discussion among senior scientists in the field, and younger colleagues from all areas of the globe, the Institutes of Hydrophysics and Atmospheric Physics at GKSS have instituted the GKSS School of Environmental Research. Appliedenvironmental research has always containedanelement ofaware­ ness ofthe societal implications and boundary conditions associated with en­ vironmental concerns. Consequently, the School of Environmental Research adheres to the philosophy that all discussion regarding environmental change should incorporate a social component. This necessity has been well acknowl­ edged and is apparent by the incorporation ofsocial scientists into the series of lectures. Senior scientists from Europe and North America were invited to give lectures to "students" from all parts of the globe.

• Cloud
• Greenhouse gas
• Scale
• Weather
• climate change

• GKSS Forschungszentrum, Geesthacht, Germany

  Hans Storch, Götz Flöser

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