Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis Working Group I Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

About this book

This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will again form the standard scientific reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, including students and researchers in environmental science, meteorology, climatology, biology, ecology and atmospheric chemistry. It provides invaluable material for decision makers and stakeholders: international, national, local; and in all branches: government, businesses, and NGOs.

This volume provides:
- An authoritative and unbiased overview of the physical science basis of climate change;
- A more extensive assessment of changes observed throughout the climate system than ever before;
- New dedicated chapters on sea-level change, biogeochemical cycles, clouds and aerosols, and regional climate phenomena;
- A more extensive coverage of model projections, both near-term and long-term climate projections;
- A detailed assessment of climate change observations, modelling, and attribution for every continent;
- A new comprehensive Atlas of Global and Regional Climate Projections for 35 regions of the world.

Contents

Foreword
Preface
Summary for policy makers
Technical summary

1. Introduction
2. Observations: atmosphere and surface
3. Observations: ocean
4. Observations: cryosphere
5. Information from paleoclimate archives
6. Carbon and other biogeochemical cycles
7. Clouds and aerosols
8. Anthropogenic and natural radiative forcing
9. Evaluation of climate models
10. Detection and attribution of climate change: from global to regional
11. Near-term climate change: projections and predictability
12. Long-term climate change: projections, commitments and irreversibility
13. Sea level change
14. Climate phenomena and their relevance for future regional climate change

Annex I. Atlas of global and regional climate projections
Annex II. Climate system scenario tables
Annex III. Glossary
Annex IV. Acronyms
Annex V. Contributors
Annex VI. Expert reviewers
Index

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