Book contents
- Climate Change in Practice
- Reviews
- Climate Change in Practice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What Is the Global Mean Temperature and How Has It Changed?
- 2 Why Does Climate Change?
- 3 What Does It Take to Build a Model of the Climate System?
- 4 How Trustworthy Are Climate Models?
- 5 What Is the Purpose of Regional Climate Downscaling?
- 6 What Is the ‘Cascade of Uncertainty’ and Why Does It Matter?
- 7 What Shapes Climate Vulnerability?
- 8 When Are Climate Forecasts Good Enough to Take Action?
- 9 Who or What Is Most at Risk from Climate Change?
- 10 How Can Urbanites Avoid Becoming Climate Victims or Villains?
- 11 What Is Dangerous Climate Change?
- 12 Why and How Are Carbon Footprints Measured?
- 13 How to Decarbonise Economies?
- 14 How Is It Possible to Adapt to an Uncertain Climate?
- 15 Could or Should Humankind Geoengineer Earth?
- 16 How Is Climate Change Communicated?
- 17 Who Are Climate Experts?
- 18 How Connected Is Climate Change to Other Global Challenges?
- References
- Index
- References
1 - What Is the Global Mean Temperature and How Has It Changed?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2017
Book contents
- Climate Change in Practice
- Reviews
- Climate Change in Practice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What Is the Global Mean Temperature and How Has It Changed?
- 2 Why Does Climate Change?
- 3 What Does It Take to Build a Model of the Climate System?
- 4 How Trustworthy Are Climate Models?
- 5 What Is the Purpose of Regional Climate Downscaling?
- 6 What Is the ‘Cascade of Uncertainty’ and Why Does It Matter?
- 7 What Shapes Climate Vulnerability?
- 8 When Are Climate Forecasts Good Enough to Take Action?
- 9 Who or What Is Most at Risk from Climate Change?
- 10 How Can Urbanites Avoid Becoming Climate Victims or Villains?
- 11 What Is Dangerous Climate Change?
- 12 Why and How Are Carbon Footprints Measured?
- 13 How to Decarbonise Economies?
- 14 How Is It Possible to Adapt to an Uncertain Climate?
- 15 Could or Should Humankind Geoengineer Earth?
- 16 How Is Climate Change Communicated?
- 17 Who Are Climate Experts?
- 18 How Connected Is Climate Change to Other Global Challenges?
- References
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Climate Change in PracticeTopics for Discussion with Group Exercises, pp. 1 - 18Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
References
1.4 Further reading
Kaufmann, R.K., Kauppi, H., Mann, M.L. and Stock, J.H. 2011. Reconciling anthropogenic climate change with observed temperature 1998–2008. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 11790–11793.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Roemmich, D., Church, J., Gilson, J., et al. 2015. Unabated planetary warming and its ocean structure since 2006. Nature Climate Change, 5, 240–245.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tomlinson, C.J., Chapman, L., Thornes, J.E. and Baker, C. 2011. Remote sensing land surface temperature for meteorology and climatology: a review. Meteorological Applications, 18, 296–306.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
1.5 Other resources
Argo global array of temperature/salinity profiling floats www.argo.ucsd.edu/About_Argo.html
CRUTEM4 global historical near-surface air temperature anomalies over land www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/crutem4/
CRUTEM4 in Google Earth https://crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/crutem/ge/
Met Office Reports on the global warming pause www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/recent-pause-in-warming
NOAA Ocean Heat and Salt Content www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/3M_HEAT_CONTENT/
WMO Global Climate Observing System www.wmo.int/pages/prog/gcos/
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