This book examines the underlying physical and chemical mechanisms driving climate imbalance through a rigorous quantitative analysis. It provides a framework for understanding how anthropic stresses affect Earth's climate by analyzing the complex interactions between solar radiation, atmospheric composition, and Earth's surface properties.
This book examines the underlying physical and chemical mechanisms driving climate imbalance through a rigorous quantitative analysis. It provides a framework for understanding how anthropic stresses affect Earth's climate by analyzing the interactions between solar radiation, atmospheric composition, and Earth's surface properties. The work delivers a coherent physico-chemical perspective on climate change that bridges multiple scientific disciplines.
Features:
- Analyses the thermodynamics of ozone, carbon cycles, and water systems to quantify their impact on global temperature regulation.
- Explores the relationship between solar forcing mechanisms and Earth's climate response through detailed scientific examination.
- Quantifies the relative contributions of greenhouse gases, albedo changes, and solar variability to Earth's energy budget.
- Examines the existing multidisciplinary investigations by discussing the correlation and causality of different phenomena.
- Presents complex climate-science concepts through extensive figures and up-to-date literature references.
This book is intended for researchers, academics, and graduate students in atmospheric science, physical chemistry, and environmental science. It also provides practical conclusions for scientists and engineers involved in green environment initiatives.
Chapter
1. Known and unknown: a tale more than 800,000 years long.
Chapter
2. Sun-earth-atmosphere radiation forcing: the thermal properties of
the Earth
Chapter
3. Macroscopic effects of solar intensity variance on the
earths climate
Chapter
4. Macroscopic factors of climate balance:
thermodynamics of the oxygen, carbon, and water system
Chapter
5. Macroscopic
factors influencing the earths energy budget: the optical and thermal
properties of the earth's surface.
Sergio Pizzini is a former full professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Materials Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. He worked at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and served as Director of the Materials Department at the Corporate Research Centre of Montedison. He has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and has authored six books, including two published by CRC Press. His research expertise spans structural, electronic and optical properties of materials, with particular focus on silicon and advanced materials for electronics, developed through leadership roles in numerous European research projects.
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