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Climate Change Collection: Climate change science

Climate Change Collection: Climate change science

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Updated: May 7, 2012, 11:40 am
Topics: Climate Change
This article has been reviewed by the following Topic Editor: Peter Saundry
 

History of climate change science

  1. Scientific disciplines
    1. Planetary studies
  2. Documentary and historical evidence
    1. Tree rings
    2. Arctic tree rings
    3. Marine records
    4. Corals
    5. Marine sediments
    6. Ice core measurements
    7. Glacier length and mass balance
    8. Boreholes
    9. Multiproxy reconstruction techniques

People

  1. James Croll
  2. Charles Keeling
  3. Roger Revelle
  4. Find more Biographies and EoE Authors

Causes of climate change

  1. Overview
  2. Frequently asked questions
  3. Natural causes
    1. Changes in composition of Earth’s atmosphere
    2. Changes in topography, land-sea geography, and bathymetry
    3. Changes is solar luminosity
    4. Changes in Earth’s orbit
    5. Volcanic activity
    6. Internal variability
  4. Human causes
    1. Chemically and radiatively important gases
      1. Carbon dioxide
          1. Anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions
          2. Mauna Loa curve
      2. Methane
      3. Nitrous oxide
      4. Chlorofluorocarbons and other Montreal Protocol gases
      5. Ozone
      6. Statospheric water vapor
    2. Greenhouse gas emissions
    3. Changes in aerosol concentrations
    4. Changes in surface albedo
    5. Land-use change
    6. Deforestation
      1. South America
      2. Other regions

Climate system changes

  1. Relative magnitudes of natural and human causes of climate change
  2. Global climate projections
  3. Surface and atmospheric changes
    1. Changes in surface temperature
    2. Long proxy temperature records
    3. Changes is large-scale precipitation
    4. Changes in evapotranspiration
    5. Changes in soil moisture, drought, runoff, and river discharge
    6. Changes in the troposphere and stratosphere
    7. Changes in water vapor
    8. Changes in clouds
    9. Changes in radiation
    10. Changes in atmospheric circulation
      1. Storm tracks
      2. The stratosphere
      3. Winds, waves, and surface fluxes
    11. Patterns of atmospheric circulation variability
      1. Teleconnections
      2. El Nino/La Nina
      3. Pacific Decadal Variability
      4. North Atlantic Oscillation and Northern Annular Mode
      5. Southern Hemisphere and Southern Annular Mode
      6. Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation
    12. Changes in extreme events
      1. Changes in tropical storms
      2. Changes in extratropical storms
      3. Changes in alpine glaciers
  4. Changes in snow, ice and forzen land
    1. Changes in seasonal snow cover
    2. Changes in river and lake ice
    3. Changes in sea ice
      1. Sea ice in the Arctic
    4. Changes in glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and ice shelves
      1. Glaciers and ice sheets in the Arctic
    5. Changes in frozen ground
      1. Permafrost in the Arctic
    6. Changes in the length of the North American growing season
    7. Changes in the distribution of plants and animals
    8. Trends in precipitation, storminess, and El Nino
      1. Mean annual precipitation
      2. Heavy precipitation
      3. Snowfall in Antarctica and Greenland
      4. Tropical cyclones
      5. Extratropical cyclones
  5. Oceanic changes
    1. Changes in global scale temperature and salinity
      1. Ocean heat content
      2. Ocean salinity
      3. Air-sea fluxes and meridional transport
    2. Regional changes in ocean circulation and water masses
      1. Atlantic and Arctic Oceans
      2. Pacific Ocean
      3. Indian Ocean
      4. Southern Ocean
    3. Ocean biogeochemical changes
      1. Carbon
      2. Oxygen
      3. Nutrients
      4. Ocean acidification
    4. Changes in sea level
      1. Observations of sea level changes
      2. Ocean density changes
      3. Ocean mass change
      4. Total budget of the global mean sea level change

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Citation

Maggie Surface (Lead Author);Peter Saundry (Topic Editor) "Climate Change Collection: Climate change science". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth January 28, 2010; Last revised Date May 7, 2012; Retrieved May 23, 2013 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_Change_Collection:_Climate_change_science>

The Author

Maggie SurfaceMaggie Surface, originally from Nashville, TN, graduated in May of 2007 from Allegheny College with a double B.S. in physics and environmental studies. Her senior thesis at Allegheny focused on bringing solar energy to campus. She interned with American Rivers in the summer of 2006, helping plan River Lobby Day, and with the Meadville Area Local Growers and the Meadville Redevelopment Authority in the summer of 2005. Maggie served as the Earth Portal Program Coordinator for the National Counc ... (Full Bio)

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