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Principles of planetary climate
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ISBN: 9780521865562 0521865565 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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"This book introduces the reader to all the basic physical building blocks of climate needed to understand the present and past climate of Earth, the climates of Solar System planets, and the climates of extrasolar planets. These building blocks include thermodynamics, infrared radiative transfer, scattering, surface heat transfer and various processes governing the evolution of atmospheric composition. Nearly four hundred problems are supplied to help consolidate the reader's understanding, and to lead the reader towards original research on planetary climate. This textbook is invaluable for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students in atmospheric science, Earth and planetary science, astrobiology, and physics. It also provides a superb reference text for researchers in these subjects, and is very suitable for academic researchers trained in physics or chemistry who wish to rapidly gain enough background to participate in the excitement of the new research opportunities opening in planetary climate"-- "The climate system is made up of building blocks which in themselves are based on elementary physical principles, but which have surprising and profound collective behavior when allowed to interact on the planetary scale. In this sense, the "climate game" is rather like the game of Go, where interesting structure emerges from the interaction of simple rules on a big playing field, rather than complexity in the rules themselves. This book is intended to provide a rapid entré into this fascinating universe of problems for the student who is already somewhat literate in physics and mathematics, but who has not had any previous experience with climate problems. The subject matter of each individual chapter could easily fill a textbook many times over, but even the abbreviated treatment given here provides enough core material for the student to begin treating original questions in the physics of climate"--


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Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, A Journal of the Senckenberg Research Institute
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ISSN: 18671594 18671608 Publisher: Heidelberg


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Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology
ISSN: 00310182 Publisher: Amsterdam

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"An international journal for the geosciences."


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The holocene
ISSN: 09596836 14770911 Publisher: Sevenoaks

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"An interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change."

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