Climate : Volume 1: Fundamentals and Climate Now.

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Cover; Climate: Present, Past and Future; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Sir Graham Sutton; Introduction; Part I Fundamentals; 1 Concepts and definitions: the weather, the atmosphere and the sun; 2 Radiation and the Earth's heat supply; 3 The atmosphere in motion; 4 Seasonal changes; 5 The stratosphere; 6 Cyclic and quasi-periodic phenomena; 7 Anomalous patterns of atmospheric circulation, weather and climate; 8 The oceans; 9 The water cycle; 10 Some observed causes of climatic variation; APPENDIXES TO PART I
I Supplementary tablesII The production and decay of radioactive carbon in the atmosphere; III Orbit data; IV Departures from the long-term average of monthly mean pressure at sea level associated with different phases of the sunspot cycle; Part II Climate now; 11 Observational reference data and classification of climates; World maps; World-wide classification of climates; World climatic table; References; Geographical index; Subject index

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