Title Statements
- Full title :Experimenting on a small planet : a scholarly entertainment / William W. Hay.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:Berlin
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:xxix, 983 p. : : il., mapes ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783642285592, 3642285597
- oclc:ocn908611186
- LC Classification:QC981
Table of Contents
The Language of Science -- Geologic Time -- Putting Numbers on Geologic Ages -- Discovering Past Climate Change -- The Nature of Energy Received from the Sun -- The Analogies with Water Waves and Sound -- The Nature of Energy Received from the Sun -- Figuring out what Light really is -- Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum -- The Origins of Climate Science -- The Idea of Energy Balance -- The Climate System -- What's at the Bottom of Alice's Rabbit Hole? -- Energy from the Sun -- Long-term Variations -- Solar Variability -- Albedo -- Air -- HOH -- The Keystone of Earth's Climate -- Greenhouse Gasses -- The Circulation of Earth's Atmosphere and Ocean -- The Biological Interactions -- Sea level -- Global Climate Change -- the (Geologically) Immediate Past -- Is there an Analog for the Future Climate? -- The Instrumental Temperature Record -- What is Expected in the 21st Century -- Beyond 2100 -- The Return to Warm Earth -- Titanic Timeline.
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