The Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future
Over the 4.6 billion years of its existence, the Earth has seen a large variety of climate states. During the evolution of our planet, its climate was characterized by periods of enhanced climate variability or even swings and some more or less stable - almost quiet - periods. Natural climate variab...
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fthzgzmk:oai:publications.hereon.de:27631 2023-06-11T04:14:59+02:00 The Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future Quante, M. 2010 https://publications.hereon.de/id/27631 https://publications.hzg.de/id/27631 unknown Habel, J.C.; Assmann, T. Springer http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92160-8_2 urn:isbn:978-3-540-92159-2 https://publications.hereon.de/id/27631 https://publications.hzg.de/id/27631 info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Quante, M.: The Changing Climate: Past, Present and Future. In: Habel, J.C.; Assmann, T. (Hrsg.): Relict Species - Phylogeography and Conservation Biology . 2010. 9 - 56. (DOI:10.1007/978-3-540-92160-8_2) (ISBN: 978-3-540-92159-2) info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/551 info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart Buch Artikel 2010 fthzgzmk https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92160-8_2 2023-05-28T23:23:02Z Over the 4.6 billion years of its existence, the Earth has seen a large variety of climate states. During the evolution of our planet, its climate was characterized by periods of enhanced climate variability or even swings and some more or less stable - almost quiet - periods. Natural climate variability was the rule rather than an exception and the evolution of life on Earth was closely linked to climate and its change. For about 250 years, mankind has interfered stronger with the climate system via the release of radiative gases and particles in substantial amounts into the atmosphere. A global mean near surface temperature increase - global warming - can be deduced from instrumental observations, which started in about 1860. The pace and amount of this temperature increase is unprecedented at least the past 1600 years, as reconstructions from proxy data indicate. The observed warming can be attributed to a large extent to human activities as the most recent report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states. The atmospheric temperature increase is accompanied by an increase in sea surface temperature and a rise of the sea level. Evidence is building that human-induced climate change has also a direct influence on changes in precipitation and the hydrological cycle. Climate projection driven by socio-economic scenarios indicate that the global temperature and sea level rise will continue throughout the twenty-first century and beyond, the amount of which is strongly dependent on the underlying emission assumptions. There are a few climate elements that may be sensitive to sudden, abrupt changes, when a set of conditioning parameters is overstepped or certain thresholds are passed; a prominent example is a possible collapse of the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic. Here, further research in necessary to quantify thresÂholds, effects and time horizons. Overall it can be said that a certain amount of future climate change is unavoidable regardless which route of emission reductions mankind ... Book Part North Atlantic Hereon Publications (Helmholtz-Zentrum) 9 56 Berlin, Heidelberg |
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Over the 4.6 billion years of its existence, the Earth has seen a large variety of climate states. During the evolution of our planet, its climate was characterized by periods of enhanced climate variability or even swings and some more or less stable - almost quiet - periods. Natural climate variability was the rule rather than an exception and the evolution of life on Earth was closely linked to climate and its change. For about 250 years, mankind has interfered stronger with the climate system via the release of radiative gases and particles in substantial amounts into the atmosphere. A global mean near surface temperature increase - global warming - can be deduced from instrumental observations, which started in about 1860. The pace and amount of this temperature increase is unprecedented at least the past 1600 years, as reconstructions from proxy data indicate. The observed warming can be attributed to a large extent to human activities as the most recent report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states. The atmospheric temperature increase is accompanied by an increase in sea surface temperature and a rise of the sea level. Evidence is building that human-induced climate change has also a direct influence on changes in precipitation and the hydrological cycle. Climate projection driven by socio-economic scenarios indicate that the global temperature and sea level rise will continue throughout the twenty-first century and beyond, the amount of which is strongly dependent on the underlying emission assumptions. There are a few climate elements that may be sensitive to sudden, abrupt changes, when a set of conditioning parameters is overstepped or certain thresholds are passed; a prominent example is a possible collapse of the thermohaline circulation in the North Atlantic. Here, further research in necessary to quantify thresÂholds, effects and time horizons. Overall it can be said that a certain amount of future climate change is unavoidable regardless which route of emission reductions mankind ... |
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