Global Environmental Change: An Atmospheric Perspective

By John Horel and Jack Geisler

Book Overview

This book describes how the atmosphere works as a global entity to maintain a given global climate or to maintain an adequate ozone shield. It focuses on the two aspects of global change brought about by human activities: a global change in climate and a deterioration of the earth's protective shield of ozone. The authors show how to use information about how the atmosphere functions to predict the future courses of these two aspects of global change.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471130737
• ISBN13: 9780471130734
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.5" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent technical introduction to global climate change

Whether you are entering a geophysical academic field or just interested in the process of global climate change and whether or not it is happeing, this book provides an excellent introduction to what is really going on in the atmosphere.Covering not only global warming, but also long term climate change (ice ages), El Nino Southern Oscillation, the ozone hole, and changes in the carbon cycle, this book uses less than 150 pages to provide the reader a strong grasp of how the atmosphere might be changing.What is missing from the book? Attention is focused only on the technical mechanisms of the role of the atmosphere in global climate change. The book does not address the role of human activites and hence is able to mostly maintain balance. Thus, it is a must read no matter which side of the global warming debate you stand on.