Climate Change 1992

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Cambridge University Press, 1992 M05 28 - 200 páginas
This report is a supplement to the 1990 Report of the Scientific Assessment Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC was set up jointly by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme in 1988 to provide an authoritative international consensus of scientific opinion on global warming. This supplement reviews the key conclusions of the 1990 Report in the light of new evidence, focusing on five main areas: sources and sinks of greenhouse gases, and the precursors of tropospheric ozone; radiative forcing of the atmosphere, with emphasis on the concept of Global Warming Potential; updated scenarios for emission of greenhouse gases up to the end of the 21st century (as the basis for climate modelling studies); new developments in climate modelling and model validation; recent observational data on climate variability and change.
 

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CONTENTS
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What Would We Now Estimate for Climate Change?
17
A Greenhouse Gases
23
A2 Radiative Forcing of Climate
47
An Update
69
B Climate Modelling Climate Prediction and Model Validation
97
Observed Climate Variability and Change
135
Annex
171
Acronyms
193
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