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| Reviews of the first edition | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Weather and climate | |
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| What do we mean by climate variability and climate change? | |
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| Connections, timescales and uncertainties | |
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| The big picture | |
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| Radiation and the Earth's energy balance | |
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| Solar and terrestrial radiation | |
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| Solar variability | |
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| Summary | |
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| The elements of the climate | |
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| The atmosphere and oceans in motion | |
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| Atmospheric circulation patterns | |
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| Radiation balance | |
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| The hydrological cycle | |
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| The biosphere | |
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| Sustained abnormal weather patterns | |
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| Atmosphere-ocean interactions | |
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| The Great Ocean Conveyor | |
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| Summary | |
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| The measurement of climate change | |
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| In situ instrumental observations | |
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| Satellite measurements | |
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| Re-analysis work | |
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| Historical records | |
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| Proxy measurements | |
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| Dating | |
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| Isotope age dating | |
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| Summary | |
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| Statistics, significance and cycles | |
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| Time series, sampling and harmonic analysis | |
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| Noise | |
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| Measures of variability and significance | |
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| Smoothing | |
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| Wavelet analysis | |
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| Multidimensional analysis | |
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| Summary | |
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| The natural causes of climate change | |
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| Autovariance and non-linearity | |
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| Atmosphere-ocean interactions | |
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| Ocean currents | |
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| Volcanoes | |
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| Sunspots and solar activity | |
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| Tidal forces | |
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| Orbital variations | |
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| Continental drift | |
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| Changes in atmospheric composition | |
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| A belch from the deep | |
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| Catastrophes and the 'nuclear winter' | |
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| Summary | |
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| Human activities | |
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| Greenhouse gas emissions | |
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| Dust and aerosols | |
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| Desertification and deforestation | |
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| The ozone hole | |
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| Summary | |
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| Evidence of climate change | |
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| Peering into the abyss of time | |
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| From greenhouse to icehouse | |
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| Sea-level fluctuations | |
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| The ice ages | |
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| The end of the last ice age | |
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| The Holocene climatic optimum | |
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| Changes during times of recorded history | |
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| The medieval climatic optimum | |
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| The Little Ice Age | |
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| The twentieth-century warming | |
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| Concluding observations | |
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| Consequences of climate change | |
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| Geological consequences | |
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| Flora and fauna | |
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| Mass extinctions | |
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| Sea levels, ice sheets and glaciers | |
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| Agriculture | |
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| The historical implications of climatic variability | |
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| Spread of diseases | |
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| The economic impact of extreme weather events | |
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| Summary | |
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| Modelling the climate | |
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| Global circulation models | |
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| Simulation of climatic variability | |
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| The challenges facing modellers | |
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| Summary | |
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| Predicting climate change | |
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| Natural variability | |
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| Predicting global warming | |
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| The predicted consequences of global warming | |
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| Doubts about the scale of global warming | |
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| What can we do about global warming? | |
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| The Gaia hypothesis | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |