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Encyclopedia of global warming and climate change
Publisher
SAGE
Publication Date
c2008
Language
English
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Abrupt climate changes
Adaptation
Aerosols
Afforestation
Afghanistan
Agriculture
Agulhas Current
Air Force, U.S.
Alabama
Alaska
Alaska Climate Research Center
Albania
Albedo
Algeria
Alliance of Small Island States
Alliance to Save Energy
Alternative energy, Ethanol
Alternative energy, Overview
Alternative energy, Solar
Alternative energy, Wind
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
American Electric Power
American Gas Association
American Geophysical Union
American Meteorological Society
Andorra
Angola
Animals
An Inconvenient Truth
Antarctic circumpolar Current
Antarctic ice sheets
Antarctic Meteorology Research Center
Anthropogenic forcing
Anticyclones
Antigua and Barbuda
Applied Energy Services, Inc.
Arakawa, Akio
Arctic Ocean
Argentina
Arizona
Arkansas
Armenia
Arrhenius, Svante August
Atlantic Ocean - Atmosphere, Climate and Environment Information Programme (UK)
Atmospheric absorption of solar radiation
Atmospheric boundary layer
Atmospheric component of models
Atmospheric composition
Atmospheric emission of infrared radiation
Atmospheric general circulation models
Atmospheric Research and Information Centre
Atmospheric vertical structure
Attribution of global warming
Aurora
Australia
Austria
Automobiles
Aviation
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benguela Current
Benin
Berlin Mandate
Bhutan
Biogeochemical feedbacks
Biology
Biomass
Blizzards
Bolin, Bert
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botany
Botswana
BP
Brazil
Broecker, Wallace
Brunei Darussalam
Bryan, Kirk
Bryson, Reid
Budyko, Mikhail
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Bush (George H.W.) administration
Bush (George W.) administration
California
California Institute of Technology
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Canadian Association for Renewable Energies
Cantor Fitzgerald EBS
Cape Verde
Capitalism
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Carbon emissions
Carbon footprints
Carbon permits
Carbon sequestration
Carbon sinks
Cenozoic era
Center for Clean Air Policy
Center for Energy Efficiency
Center for International Climate and Environment Research
Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies
Center Science and Environment (India)
Central African Republic
Chad
Chamerlin, Thomas C.
Chaos theory
Charney, Jule Gregory
Chemistry
Chile
China
Clean Air Act, U.S.
Clean development mechanism
CLIMAP Project
Climate
Climate Action Network
Climate change, Effects
Climate Change Knowledge Network
Climate cycles
Climate feedback
Climate forcing
Climate Impacts LINK Project
Climate models
Climate sensitivity and feedbacks
Climate thresholds
Climate zones
Climatic data, Atmospheric observations
Climatic data, Cave records
Climatic data, Historical records
Climatic data, Ice observations
Climatic data, Instrumental records
Climatic data, Lake records
Climatic data, Nature of the data
climatic data, Oceanic observations
Climatic data, proxy records
Climatic data, Reanalysis
Climatic data, Sea floor records
Climatic data, Sediment records
Climatic data, Tree ring records
Climatic Research Unit
Clinton administration
Cloud feedback
Clouds, Cirrus
Clouds, Stratus
Coal
Colombia
Colorado
Colorado Climate Center
Columbia University
Comoros
Compliance
Computer models
Condensation
Congo
Congo, Democratic Republic of
Connecticut
Conservation
Convection
Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research
Coriolis force
Cornell University
Costa Rica
Côte d'Ivoire
Cretaceous era
Croatia
Croll, James
Cuba
Culture
Current
Cyclones
Cyprus
Czech Republic
David Suzuki Foundation
Deforestation
Delaware
Denmark
Department of Defense, U.S.
Department of Energy, U.S.
Department of State, U.S.
Desertification
Desert Research Institute
Deserts
Detection of climate changes
Developing countries
Diseases
Djibouti
Doldrums
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Drift ice
Drought
Dynamical feedbacks
Earth's climate history
Earthshine
East Timor
Ecological footprint
Economics, Cost of affecting climate change
Economics, Impact from climate change
Ecosystems
Ecuador
Edison Electric Institute
Education
Egypt
Ekman layer
El Niño and La Niña
El Salvador
Emissions, Baseline
Emissions, Cement industry
Emissions, Trading
Energy
Energy, Renewable
Energy balance models
Energy efficiency
Environmental and societal impacts group
Environmental defense
Environmental Development Action in the Third World
Environment Financial Products, LLC
Environmental history
Environmental Law Institute
Equatorial countercurrent
Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial undercurrent
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethics
Ethiopia
European Commission
European Union
Evaporation and transpiration
Evaporation feedbacks
Evolution of the atmosphere
FEEM (Italy)
Fiji
Finland
Floods
Florida
Florida International University
Florida State University
Food miles
Food production
Foraminifera
Forced climate variability
Forests
Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development
Fourier, Joseph
Framework Convention on Climate Change
France
Friends of the Earth
Gabon
Gaia hypothesis
Gambia
Geography
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Georgia (Nation)
Georgia (U.S. state)
Geospatial technology
Germany
Ghana
Glaciers, Retreating
Glaciology
Global Atmospheric Research Program (GARP)
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
Global Industrial and Social Progress Research Institute (SISPRI)
Globalization
Global warming
Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Gore, Albert, Jr.
Greece
Green buildings
Green cities
Green design
Green homes
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Greenland cores
Greenland ice sheet
Greenpeace International
Grenada
Gross national product
Gross primary production
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Gulf Stream
Guyana
Hadley, George
Hadley circulation
Haiti
Hansen, James
Harvard University
Hawaii
Health
Heat, Latent
Heat, Sensible
Heinz Center
Historical development of climate models
History of climatology
History of meteorology
Holocene era
Honduras
Hot air
Hungary
Hurricanes and typhoons
Hydrofluorocarbons
Hydrological cycle
Ice ages
Ice Albedo Feedback
Ice component of models
Iceland
Idaho
Idaho State Climate Services
Illinois
Impacts of global warming
India
Indiana
Indiana University
Indian Ocean
Indonesia
Industrialization
Institute of Energy Economics (Argentina)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Internal climate variability
International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)
International Energy Agency (IEA)
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (IGBP)
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
International Research Institute for Climate Prediction
International Solar Energy Society (ISES)
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
Intertropical convergence zone
Iowa
Iowa State University
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jet streams
Johns Hopkins University
Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO)
Jordan
Jurassic era
Kansas
Kazakhstan
Keeling, Charles David
Kentucky
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea, North
Korea, South
Kuroshio Current
Kuwait
Kyoto mechanisms
Kyoto Protocol
Kyrgyzstan
Land component of models
Land use
Laos
Latvia
LDEO Climate Modeling Group
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Liechtenstein
Life cycle analysis
Lindzen, Richard
Lithuania
Little Ice Age
Lorenz, Edward
Louisiana
Louisiana State University
Luxembourg
Macedonia (FYROM)
Madagascar
Maine
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Manabe, Syukuro
Marine mammals
Marshall Institute
Marshall Islands
Maryland
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mauritania
Mauritius
Maximum sustainable yield
Measurement and assessment
Media, books and journals
Media, Internet
Media, TV
Meridional overturning circulation
Mesosphere
Mesozoic era
Methane cycle
Mexico
Michigan
Micronesia
Midwestern Regional Climate Center
Mílankovitch, Milutin
Milankovitch cycles
Minnesota
Mississippi
Mississippi State University
Missouri
Mixed layer
Modeling of ice ages
Modeling of ocean circulation
Modeling of paleoclimates
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Monsoons
Montana
Montreal Protocol
Morocco
Movements, Environmental
Mozambique
Munk, Walter
Myanmar
Namibia
National Academy of Sciences, U.S.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
National Association of Energy Service Companies (NAESCO)
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Science Foundation
Natsource
Natural gas
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
Nauru
Navy, U.S.
Nebraska
Needs and wants
Nepal
Netherlands
Net primary production
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico - New Mexico Climate Center
New York
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Nitrous oxide
Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
North Atlantic oscillation
North Carolina
North Dakota
Norway
Nuclear power
Ocean component of models
Oceanic changes
Oceanography
OECD Annex 1 Expert Group on the UNFCCC
OECD Climate Change documents
Office of Naval Research
Ohio
Ohio State University
Oil, Consumption of
Oil, Production of
Oklahoma
Oman
Orbital parameters, Eccentricity
Orbital parameters, Obliquity
Orbital parameters, Precession
Oregon
Oregon Climate Service
Oregon State University
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Oxygen cycle
Pacific Ocean
Pakistan
Palau
Paleoclimates
Paleozoic era
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Penguins
Penn State University
Pennsylvania
Perfluorocarbons
Peru
Peruvian Current
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Philippines
Phillips, Norman
Phytoplankton
Plants
Pleistocene era
Pliocene era
Poland
Polar bears
Policy, International
Policy, U.S.
Pollution, Air
Pollution, Land
Pollution, Water
Population
Portugal
Precambrian era
Precautionary principle
Precipitation
Preparedness
Princeton University
Public awareness
Qatar
Quaternary era
Radiation, Absorption
Radiation, Infrared
Radiation, Long wave
Radiation, Microwave
Radiation, Short wave
Radiation, Ultraviolet
Radiative feedbacks
Rain
Rainfall patterns
Refugees, Environmental
Regulation
Religion
Renewable Energy Policy Project (REPP)
Resources
Resources for the Future (RFF)
Revelle, Roger
Rhode Island
Richardson, Lewis Fry
Risk
Romania
Rossby, Carl-Gustav
Royal Dutch/Shell Group
Royal Meteorological Society
Russia
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Salinity
Samoa
San Marino
São Tomé and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Schneider, Stephen H.
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Sea ice
Sea level, Rising
Seasonal cycle
Seawater, Composition of
Senegal
Serbia and Montenegro
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Simulation and predictability of seasonal and interannual variations
Singapore
Singer, S. Fred
Slovakia
Slovenia
Smagorinsky, Joseph
Snowball Earth
Social ecology
Soil organic carbon
Soils
Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)
Solar wind
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Current
South Africa
South Carolina
South Dakota
Southern Ocean
Southern oscillation
Spain
Species extinction
Sri Lanka
Stanford University
Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
Stommel, Henry
Stratopause
Stratosphere
Sudan
Sulphur dioxide
Sulphur hexafluoride
Sunlight
Suriname
Sustainability
Sverdrup, Harald Ulrik
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI)
Technology
Tennessee
Tertiary climate
Texas
Thailand
Thermocline
Thermodynamics
Thermohaline circulation
Thermosphere
Thunderstorms
Togo
Tonga
Toronto Conference
Tourism
Trade winds
Transportation
Trexler and Associates, Inc.
Triassci period
Trinidad and Tobago
Tropopause
Troposphere
Tsunamis
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Tyndall, John
Uganda
Ukraine
UN Conference on Trade and Development/Earth Council Institute : Carbon Market Program
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United Nations
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United States of America
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Joint Office for Science Support
University of Alaska
University of Arizona
University of Birmingham
University of California, Berkeley
University of Cambridge
University of Colorado
University of Delaware
University of East Anglia
University of Florida
University of Hawaii
University of Illinois
University of Kentucky
University of Leeds
University of Maine
University of Maryland
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Nebraska
University of New Hampshire
University of Oklahoma
University of Reading
University of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
University of Utah
University of Washington
Upwelling, Coastal
Upwelling Equatorial
Uruguay
U.S. Global Change Research Program
Utah
Utah Climate Center
Uzbekistan
Validation of climate models
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vermont
Vermont Law School
Vienna Convention
Vietnam
Villach Conference
Virginia
Von Neumann, John
Vostok Core
Walker, Gilbert Thomas
Walker circulation
Washington
Washington, Warren
Waves, Gravity
Waves, Internal
Waves, Kelvin
Waves, Planetary
Waves, Rossby
Weather
Weather World 2010 Project
Western Boundary Currents
Western Regional Climate Center
West Virgina
Wind-driven circulation
Winds, Easterlies
Winds, Westerlies
Wisconsin
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
World Bank
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
World Climate Research Program
World Health Organization
World Meteorological Organization
World Resources Institute
World systems theory
Worldwatch Institute
World Weather Watch
World Wildlife Fund
Wyoming
Yemen
Younger Dryas
Zambia
Zimbabwe.
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