Earth System Science - From Biogeochemical Cycles to Global Change

Paperback  527 pp  ISBN 012379370X      £51.00

Published as a volume in the International Geophysics Series, this book is a truly interdisciplinary and international textbook, aimed at those students interested in the emerging scientific discipline sometimes referred to as earth systems science. It covers the basis for understanding all aspects of anthropogenic global change, that is chemically forced global climate change. Earth systems science is a new integrated discipline, which has been rapidly developing over the last two decades. This book is of interest to upper-level under-graduates and graduates in atmospheric and meteorological sciences, chemistry, oceanography, astronomy and some of the engineering disciplines.