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Abstract
Climate change (including climate variability) refers to regional or global changes in mean climate state or in patterns of climate variability over decades to millions of years often identified using statistical methods and sometimes referred to as changes in long-term weather conditions (IPCC, 2012). Climate is influenced by changes in continent-ocean configurations due to plate tectonic processes, variations in Earth’s orbit, axial tilt and precession, atmospheric greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations, solar variability, volcanism, internal variability resulting from interactions between the atmosphere, oceans and ice (glaciers, small ice caps, ice sheets, and sea ice), and anthropogenic activities such as greenhouse gas emissions and land use and their effects on carbon cycling.
| Publication type | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Book Chapter |
| Title | Climate change |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-94-017-8801-4_37 |
| Year Published | 2016 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Contributing office(s) | Eastern Geology and Paleoclimate Science Center |
| Description | 7 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Monograph |
| Larger Work Title | Encyclopedia of estuaries |
| First page | 122 |
| Last page | 128 |
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