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E-book Explaining Ocean Warming : Causes, scale, effects and consequences

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The evidence for a human influence on climate is clear and for a warming world “unequivocal” with many changes in Earth systems since the 1950s that are “unprecedented” (IPCC, 2013a; Reid et al., 2016). This opening chapter provides an introduction to the major role of the ocean in global warming and the Earth’s energy budget as a background to the changes in sea temperature that are behind many of the observed impacts on biological communities that are presented in the rest of the report. I also draw attention to the knife edge that humanity is on if the ocean reduces the huge buffering it provides as a heat and carbon reservoir for
the world. After a brief description of the topography of the ocean, the key role that it plays in the global heat budget and the Earth’s Energy Imbalance (EEI) is outlined, followed by a summary of changes in global surface temperatures, sea surface temperature (SST), and Ocean Heat Content (OHC). The chapter concludes with comments on: impacts and the hugely important role that the ocean and recent changes in OHC are likely to have on future climate change. Table 1.1 provides a summary of the main consequences of ocean warming, other than biological, that are covered elsewhere in
the report. The table also includes interactions with deoxygenation, ocean acidification and other stressors that are likely to have compounding consequences for ocean ecosystems and species (Levin and Le Bris, 2015; Sperling et al., 2016). Box inserts on Argo and El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) are also provided to describe essential processes needed to measure ocean heat, as well as the dramatic changes intermittent events such as El Niño are bringing to the planet.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

551.6 REI e

Penerbit

Switzerland : IUCN., 2016

Deskripsi Fisik

460 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9782831718064

Klasifikasi

551.6

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Climatology and Weather

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