Rising Seas - Past, Present, Future

Informationen zum Autor Vivien Gornitz is a geologist and special research scientist with the Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. She has written numerous articles on sea level rise and the impacts of climate change on the coastal zone. She was a contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007 and to the New York City Panel on Climate Change and New York State Energy Research and Development Authority ClimAID in 2010 and 2011. Klappentext The Earth¿s climate is already warming due to increased concentrations of human-produced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere! and the specter of rising sea level is one of global warming¿s most far-reaching threats. Sea level will keep rising long after greenhouse gas emissions have ceased! because of the delay in penetration of surface warming to the ocean depths and because of the slow dissipation of excess atmospheric carbon dioxide. Adopting a long perspective that interprets sea level changes both underway and expected in the near future! Vivien Gornitz completes a highly relevant and necessary study of an unprecedented age in Earth¿s history.

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• Authors: Gornitz, Vivien Gornitz, Vivien (Goddard Institute for Space Studi Gornitz, Vivien (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) Gornitz, Vivien Rising Seas Gornitz, Gornitz Vivien
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.2013
• EAN: 9780231147392
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14739-2
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Miscellaneous; Climate Change, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, Science / Environmental Science, Earth Sciences, Oceanography (seas and oceans), earth science; geologoy; climatology; oceanography