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History of climate change : from the Earth's origins to the Anthropocene / Antonello Provenzale ; translated by Alice Kilgarriff
Cambridge, UK ; Polity Press, [2023]
v, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"In this comprehensive history of the climate and climate change, Provenzale explains how the planetary climate system works and how the climate has evolved over millions of years that marked the early history of the Earth, including seas of magma, global glaciations and mass extinctions, he demonstrates how the climate has fluctuated between hot and cold periods, with the Earth hot and lush with forests at certain times and almost entirely covered by a thick layer of ice at others. The mechanisms that determine the modifications of the climate are multiple and complex and include external factors, such as solar luminosity and variations in the Earth's orbit, as well as internal processes connecting the atmosphere, the oceans, the crust, the mantle and the biosphere, composed of living organisms. While the climate has fluctuated a great deal over the Earth's long history, there are two features of our current situation that are a source of real concern. First, the rise in temperature of the last fifty years has been extremely fast, making it difficult for the environment to adapt to the new conditions. Second, the human population is much greater than it was in the past, and this population needs water, food, energy and shelter to survive and flourish. If temperatures continue to rise as they have in recent decades, ours will not be an easy world in which to live. To appreciate what is at stake, we need to understand how the climate works and how human activity is infecting it -- not in order to save the planet, which will do just fine on its own and probably better without us, but to save ourselves."
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Introduction to aerosol modelling : from theory to code / Edited by David Topping, Michael Bane
Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2022
xiii, 349 p. ; 25 cm.
"Aerosol science is one that straddles many disciplines. There is a natural tendency for the aerosol scientist to therefore work at the interface of the traditional academic subjects of physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and computing. The impacts that aerosol particles have on the climate, air-quality and thus human health, are linked to their evolving chemical and physical characteristics. Likewise, the chemical and physical characteristic of aerosol particles reflect their sources and subsequent processes they have been subject to. Computational models are not only essential for constructing evidence based understanding of important aerosol processes, but also to predict change and potential impact. Seminal publications provide an extensive overview on the history and basis of core theoretical frameworks that aerosol models are based on. However there is little on how we can translate such theory into code. Whilst we focus on atmospheric aerosol in this book, the theory and tools developed are based on core aerosol physics that translate across multiple disciplines. Likewise, demonstrating a programming solution to common numerical operations is valuable to a large number of scientific disciplines. You may be reading this book as an undergraduate, postgraduate, seasoned researcher in the private/public sector or as someone who wishes to better understand the pathways to aerosol model development. Wherever you position yourself, it is hoped that the tools you will learn through this book will provide you with the basis to develop your own platforms and to ensure the next generation of aerosol modelers are equipped with foundational skills to address future challenges in aerosol science. Manchester, U.K."
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