Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 The Climate System and Its Portrayal by Climate Models: A Review of Basic Principles
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   Chapter 2 Climatic Changes and Variations: A Geophysical Problem
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   Chapter 3 The Memory of the Ocean
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   Chapter 4 Surface Albedo
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   Chapter 5 Glacial to Interglacial Changes in Ocean and Atmosphere Chemistry
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   Chapter 6 Transfer Functions: Calibrating Micropaleontological Data in Climatic Terms
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   Chapter 7 Statistical Climatic Reconstructions from Tree-Ring Widths
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   Chapter 8 Data Banks for Climatological Purposes
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    Chapter 9 Palaeoclimatology Before Our Ice Age
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    Chapter 10 Oxygen Isotope Studies and Quaternary Marine Climates
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    Chapter 11 Palaeo-Climatic Studies on Ice Cores
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    Chapter 12 Pleistocene Climates on Land
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    Chapter 13 Tropical Climate Variations during Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene
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    Chapter 14 Climate of the Last 1000 Years
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    Chapter 15 Long Series of Temperature and Precipitation in Europe
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    Chapter 16 Central England and De Bilt Series
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    Chapter 17 Temperature Changes in the Last 100 Years
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    Chapter 18 Variability of Weather Over Approximately the Last Century
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    Chapter 19 Glacier Behaviour and Recent Changes in Alpine Climate
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    Chapter 20 Atmospheric Circulation and Climatic Change I. Approach to Paleoclimatic Reconstruction
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    Chapter 21 Atmospheric Circulation and Climatic Change II. Case Studies
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    Chapter 22 Meteorological Aspects of the 1975–76 Drought in Western Europe
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    Chapter 23 Case Studies of Exceptional Climate in United States 1975–1979 and Air-Sea Interactions
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    Chapter 24 Sahel Droughts: Recent Climatic Fluctuations in North Africa and the Mediterranean
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    Chapter 25 Spectrum of Climatic Variations and Possible Causes
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    Chapter 26 The Climate System and Its Portrayal by Climate Models: A Review of Basic Principles
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    Chapter 27 Energy-Balance Models: An Introduction
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    Chapter 28 Construction and Verification of Stochastic Climate Models
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    Chapter 29 The Astronomical Theory of Paleoclimates
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    Chapter 30 Time-Dependent Models of the Climatic Response to Orbital Variations
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    Chapter 31 Internal Climatic Mechanisms Participating in Glaciation Cycles
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    Chapter 32 Solar Activity and Climate
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    Chapter 33 Atmospheric Aerosols and Global Climate
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    Chapter 34 Awareness of Mankind as a Factor in Climatic Change
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    Chapter 35 The Carbon Cycle
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    Chapter 36 The Impact of Energy Production on Atmospheric CO 2 -Concentrations
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    Chapter 37 CO 2 and Climate - A Continuing Story
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    Chapter 38 Scenarios of Cold and Warm Periods of the Past
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    Chapter 39 Air Pollution Effects on Climate at Urban Scale
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    Chapter 40 Some Impacts of Desertification Processes on the Local and Regional Climate
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    Chapter 41 Climatic Impacts on Agriculture, Water Resources and Economy
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    Chapter 42 Techniques for Reconstructing Past Climates
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    Chapter 43 Climate Modelling
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    Chapter 44 Man’s Impact upon Climate