The Climate System
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Author(s): J. Berdowski, R. Guicherit and B. Heij (Eds)
Publisher: A.A. Balkema
ISBN: 9058092550
Format: hardback
178pp
Price: $54.00, €59.00
Review Date: 02 January 2002
Review: This book gives the results of the Dutch National Research Programme on Global Air Pollution and Climate Change, the aim of which was to understand how the climate systems function so that the causes of the major climate changes (natural or man-made?) could be distinguished. At present the uncertainty of our knowledge of the underlying processes hampers This book gives the results of the Dutch National Research Programme on Global Air Pollution and Climate Change, the aim of which was to understand how the climate systems function so that the causes of the major climate changes (natural or man-made?) could be distinguished. At present the uncertainty of our knowledge of the underlying processes hampers policymakers in their willingness to take what may turn out to be necessary but expensive measures. The research covered four fields: budgets and emission sources and sinks; the land component in the climate system; global energy balance and radiative forcing; and climate variability.