Climate Change Collection: Climate science

Published: February 20, 2010, 3:23 pm

Updated: May 7, 2012, 11:40 am

Topics:

Climate Change (main)

Atmosphere

1. Layers of the atmosphere
2. Atmospheric composition and structure
3. Composition
4. Solar radiation
5. Atmospheric effects on incoming solar radiation
6. The greenhouse effect
7. Greenhouse gases
8. Aerosols
9. Atmospheric circulation
10. Air pollution (Air pollution emissions)
11. Local and regional air pollution effects

Earth

1. Earth's energy balance
2. Earth-sun relationships
3. Albedo
4. Radiative forcing & damping
5. Hydrologic cycle
6. Biogeochemical cycles
   1. Carbon cycle
   2. Oceanic carbon
   3. Sulfur cycle
   4. Nitrogen cycle
   5. Ocean nitrogen

Oceans

1. Ocean circulation
2. Glaciers

Earth's climate history

1. History of climate change and variability
2. Palaeoclimate
3. Palaeoclimatic methods
4. Pre-quaternary climates
5. Glacial-Interglacial variability and dynamics
6. The current Interglacial climate
7. Climate the last 2,000 years

Modeling climate

1. Advances in climate modeling
2. Modeling atmospheric processes
   1. Modeling ocean processes
   2. Modeling terrestrial processes
   3. Modeling cryospheric processes
   4. Aerosol modeling and atmospheric chemistry
   5. Coupled models
   6. Atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (AOGCM)
3. Climate sensitivity and feedbacks
4. Thresholds and abrupt climate change
5. Evaluation of contemporary climate as simulated by coupled global models
6. Evaluation of large-scale climate variability as simulated by coupled global models
7. Modeling climate extremes

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Citation

Surface, M. (2012). Climate Change Collection: Climate science. Retrieved from http://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/Climate_Change_Collection:_Climate_science