Book Title: Introduction to Climate Science

Author: Andreas Schmittner

Book Description: This book describes how Earth's climate is changing, how it has been changing in the recent geological past and how it may change in the future. It covers the physical sciences that build the foundations of our current understanding of global climate change such as radiation, Earth's energy balance, the greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle. Both natural and human causes for climate change are discussed. Impacts of climate change on natural and human systems are summarized. Ethical and economical aspects of human-caused climate change and solutions are presented.
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Andreas Schmittner

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Climate change

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Title
Introduction to Climate Science
Author
Andreas Schmittner
License

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Introduction to Climate Science Copyright © 2019 by Andreas Schmittner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Publication and ongoing maintenance of this textbook is possible due to grant support from Oregon State University Ecampus.

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Primary Subject
Climate change
Additional Subject(s)
Atmospheric physics, Oceanography (seas and oceans), Climatology and climate modelling
Institution
Oregon State University
Publisher
Oregon State University
Publication Date
May 28, 2018
Print ISBN
978-1-955101-00-4