| 청구기호 |
GC89 .W653 2019eb |
| 형태사항 |
1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (chiefly color).
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| 언어 |
English |
| 일반주기 |
"Version: 20190401"--Title page verso.
"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.
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| 서지주기 |
Includes bibliographical references.
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| 내용 |
1. The sea-level threat exemplified by Miami and Venice -- 1.1. Introduction to the Anthropocene -- 1.2. The recent rise of sea level -- 1.3. The River Thames flood barrier -- 1.4. The 'Big U' water fence for New York -- 1.5. Why Miami is more difficult -- 1.6. Amplification of sea-level threat by tides, storm-surges and the high vapor pressure of warm water -- 1.7. Quantifying damages and liabilities : fractional attributable risk
2. Carbon burning has 'engineered' a new era of high temperature and high sea level -- 2.1. Radiation balance sets Earth temperature -- 2.2. The greenhouse gas discoveries of Tyndall and Arrhenius -- 2.3. Carbon dioxide rose during the fossil fuel era from 280 ppm to 410 ppm -- 2.4. Temperature and sea level rises are accelerating, will there be a tipping point?
3. Instability of Earth climate and sea level -- 3.1. The ice core record of 420 000 years -- 3.2. Sea level rise since the last glaciation -- 3.3. The 'Hothouse Earth' : an earlier era of high sea level
4. What was learned from Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1991 -- 4.1. Sulfur dioxide emission and stratospheric aerosol -- 4.2. Cooling of the Earth by the Mt Pinatubo eruption -- 4.3. Lowering sea level from Mt Pinatubo in the altimeter record -- 4.4. Particulate matter in the contemporary atmosphere
5. Solar engineering to cool the Earth -- 5.1. Size and type of artificial aerosol : a back-of-the-envelope estimate -- 5.2. Expected lifetime, cooling, and other aspects -- 5.3. A more general look at light scattering particles -- 5.4. Model predictions of climate alterations -- 5.5. Methods of aerosol insertion -- 5.6. Cost estimates are low
6. Can sea level be lowered by cooling to save Miami? -- 6.1. Thermal expansion of sea water -- 6.2. Sea level predictions based on the volcanic eruptions -- 6.3. Sea level predictions using geoengineering and climate models -- 6.4. Saving Miami and Shanghai and Venice by lowering the sea.
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| 주제 |
Sea level.
Climatic changes.
Physics.
Ecological science, the Biosphere. --bicssc
SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental). --bisacsh
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| ISBN |
9781643274287qebook
9781643274263 |
| 기타 표준번호 |
10.1088/2053-2571/aafe76 |
