Archer, David, 1960-
The global carbon cycle / David Archer. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, �2010. - 1 online resource (205 pages) : illustrations - Princeton primers in climate . - Princeton primers in climate. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
Carbon on earth -- The stable geologic carbon cycle -- The unstable ice age carbon cycle -- The present and future carbon cycle: stable or unstable? -- Methane -- Summary.
The Global Carbon Cycle is a short introduction to this essential geochemical driver of the Earth's climate system, written by one of the world's leading climate-science experts. In this one-of-a-kind primer, David Archer engages readers in clear and simple terms about the many ways the global carbon cycle is woven into our climate system. He begins with a concise overview of the subject, and then looks at the carbon cycle on three different time scales, describing how the cycle interacts with climate in very distinct ways in each. On million-year time scales, feedbacks in the carbon cycle stabilize Earth's climate and oxygen concentrations. Archer explains how on hundred-thousand-year glacial/interglacial time scales, the carbon cycle in the ocean amplifies climate change, and how, on the human time scale of decades, the carbon cycle has been dampening climate change by absorbing fossil-fuel carbon dioxide into the oceans and land biosphere. A central question of the book is whether the carbon cycle could once again act to amplify climate change in centuries to come, for example through melting permafrost peatlands and methane hydrates. The Global Carbon Cycle features a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, and explanations of equations, as well as a forward-looking discussion of open questions about the global carbon cycle. Presents an introduction to the global carbon cycle and the ways in which it interacts with the Earth's climate system.
9781400837076 1400837073 0691144141 9780691144146
9786612936555 9780691144146
293655 MIL 22573/ctvckv3rs JSTOR 9452461 IEEE
GBB095361 bnb
015623663 Uk
Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Cycle du carbone (Biog�eochimie)
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--General.
Environment and ecology.
Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Geochemistry.
Carbon.
koolstofcyclus carbon cycle klimaatverandering climatic change geochemie geochemistry klimaat climate geologie geology Climatic Change Klimaatverandering
Electronic books.
QC879.8 QH344 / .A73 2010
363.738/746
574
The global carbon cycle / David Archer. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, �2010. - 1 online resource (205 pages) : illustrations - Princeton primers in climate . - Princeton primers in climate. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
Carbon on earth -- The stable geologic carbon cycle -- The unstable ice age carbon cycle -- The present and future carbon cycle: stable or unstable? -- Methane -- Summary.
The Global Carbon Cycle is a short introduction to this essential geochemical driver of the Earth's climate system, written by one of the world's leading climate-science experts. In this one-of-a-kind primer, David Archer engages readers in clear and simple terms about the many ways the global carbon cycle is woven into our climate system. He begins with a concise overview of the subject, and then looks at the carbon cycle on three different time scales, describing how the cycle interacts with climate in very distinct ways in each. On million-year time scales, feedbacks in the carbon cycle stabilize Earth's climate and oxygen concentrations. Archer explains how on hundred-thousand-year glacial/interglacial time scales, the carbon cycle in the ocean amplifies climate change, and how, on the human time scale of decades, the carbon cycle has been dampening climate change by absorbing fossil-fuel carbon dioxide into the oceans and land biosphere. A central question of the book is whether the carbon cycle could once again act to amplify climate change in centuries to come, for example through melting permafrost peatlands and methane hydrates. The Global Carbon Cycle features a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, and explanations of equations, as well as a forward-looking discussion of open questions about the global carbon cycle. Presents an introduction to the global carbon cycle and the ways in which it interacts with the Earth's climate system.
9781400837076 1400837073 0691144141 9780691144146
9786612936555 9780691144146
293655 MIL 22573/ctvckv3rs JSTOR 9452461 IEEE
GBB095361 bnb
015623663 Uk
Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Cycle du carbone (Biog�eochimie)
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--General.
Environment and ecology.
Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
Geochemistry.
Carbon.
koolstofcyclus carbon cycle klimaatverandering climatic change geochemie geochemistry klimaat climate geologie geology Climatic Change Klimaatverandering
Electronic books.
QC879.8 QH344 / .A73 2010
363.738/746
574