Hugues Goosse

Climate System Dynamics and Modelling

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An introductory textbook on all aspects of climate system dynamics and modelling for students, scientists and professionals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 373
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 261mm x 184mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 967g
• ISBN-13: 9781107083899
• ISBN-10: 1107083893
• Artikelnr.: 42744382

Autorenporträt

Hugues Goosse is senior research associate with the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS-Belgium) and professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. He teaches climate related topics to students from a wide range of backgrounds, including physics, geography, engineering, bioengineering, biology, Earth and environmental sciences, and philosophy. His research is mainly devoted to the development of climate models, model-data comparison and the application of models to study past, current and future climate change, analyzing both natural variability and the response to human-induced perturbations. He is currently editor and former co-chief editor of the journal Climate of the Past. He has contributed to several international programs and assessment reports, in particular to the Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Description of the climate system and its components
2. The energy balance, hydrological and carbon cycles
3. Modelling the climate system
4. The response of the climate system to a perturbation
5. Brief history of climate: causes and mechanisms
6. Future climate changes.