Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Publication Year:
2009
Publication Place
Nairobi, Kenya
Physical Description:
76 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
36052
Legacy PEIN ID:
76055
General Notes
Available online
Available online
Subject Heading(s)
Climate change - Effects
Climatic changes - Effects
Abstract
A thin veneer of atmosphere, soil, and water covers the surface of the planet. That is the envelope supplying most of the raw material we need to live. Energy from the Sun, with some residual energy still within the planets core, feeds Earths dynamic systems that cycle materials within the envelope. Earth System scientists are investigating the energy and material fluxes that determine the systems dynamics to better understand climate change. This Compendium presents some of the vanguard science and conceptual advances under discussion and published by researchers since 2007 that explores the challenge presented by climate change. Rapidly developing toolsthat allow fast and accurate readings of environmental conditions, that compile and analyze data series of increasing complexities at unprecedented rates, and that allow insights into fluxes of energy and material at micro and macro scaleshave accelerated the rate at which vanguard science is being produced.
Location
SPREP LIBRARY
Publisher
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Publication Year:
2009
Publication Place
Nairobi, Kenya
Physical Description:
76 p.
Call Number
[EL]
Collection
Material Type
Language
English
Record ID:
36052
Legacy PEIN ID:
76055
General Notes
Available online
Record Created: 25-Sep-2009
Record Modified: 20-Sep-2022