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Global Climate

Current Research and Uncertainties in the Climate System

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Xavier Rodó

    1. Climate ResearchGroup, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

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  2. Francisco A. Comín

    1. Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologia-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain

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  • The book offers a synthesis of the status of current research on the climate system and its uncertainties

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XX
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. What we know about the Climate System? A brief review of current research

      • Francisco A. Comín, Miguel Angel Rodríguez-Arias
      Pages 3-24

    3. Why Global Warming Is A Controversial Issue

      • S. George Philander
      Pages 25-33

    4. El Niño: A Predictable Climate Fluctuation

      • S. George Philander
      Pages 34-40

    5. Climate Information Systems and Their Applications

      • Chet F. Ropelewski, Bradfield Lyon
      Pages 41-52

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. An Introduction to Ocean Climate Modeling

      • Stephen M. Griffies
      Pages 55-79

    3. An Introduction to Linear Predictability Analysis

      • Stephen M. Griffies
      Pages 80-101

    4. Carbon Cycling over Lands and Oceans

      • Philippe Ciais
      Pages 102-128

    5. Changes in the Global Carbon Cycle and Ocean Circulation on the Millennial Time Scale

      • Thomas F. Stocker
      Pages 129-152

    6. Understanding Future Climate Change Using Paleorecords

      • Keith Alverson, Christoph Kull
      Pages 153-185

    7. The Indian Monsoon and its Relation to Global Climate Variability

      • V. Krishnamurthy, James L. Kinter III
      Pages 186-236

    8. Interactions between the Tropics and Extratropics

      • Xavier Rodó
      Pages 237-274

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 275-286
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Uncertainty for Everyone The one thing that is certain about the world is that the world is uncertain. I have here, the question that apart of the matter, living matter, has to resolve in each and every one of its moments of existance. The environment of a living being is apart of the living being where it turns out, the rest of the living beings live. This is the drama of life on earth. Every living individual debates with his environment, exchanging matter, energy and information in the hope of staying alive, the same as all living beings who share that same environment. The adven­ ture of a living being (of all living beings ) is to maintain reasonable independ­ ence in face ofthe fluctuations ofuncertainty within the environment. The range of restrictions and mutual relationships is colossal. How is the tran­ seendental pretension of staying alive regulated? There is an equation imposed by the laws ofthermodynamics and the mathematical theory ofinformation about the interaction ofa living being with his environment which we could state like this: The complexity 01 a living individual plus his capacity for anticipation in re­ spect to his environment is identical to the uncertainty of the environmentplus the capacity of that living being to change the environment.

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"The book comprises 11 essays in 2 parts written by a total of 13 authors. The rational for editing another collection on the basic problems of our climate system is the dramatic change that climate research has undergone in the last decade. … The book reaches its goal in that a couple of hot spots are identified and professionally discussed … . it is a valuable voice in the growing global choir of climate researchers who seek for a consensus … ." (M. Hantel, Meteorologische Zeitschrift, Vol. 14 (1), 2005)

"This book provides detailed views of ‘hot spots’ in the dynamics of our climate system. The eleven chapters are well written by international experts in different areas. The aim of the book is to give a brief overview of recent advances in climate research … . The book is very readable and provides information overviews and glimpses that serve as appetizers to a wide range of environmental-science topics with great relevance to understanding past, present, and future climates." (Derek Winstanley, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, January, 2004)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Climate ResearchGroup, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Xavier Rodó

  • Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologia-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain

    Francisco A. Comín

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