Description
Book SynopsisThis book is the first in a series of assessments of regional climate change. Irreversible changes to regional biogeochemistry, and terrestrial and marine ecosystem functioning are brought about by increases in population, intensified land use, urbanization, industrialization and economic development. These may have global as well as regional consequences. The objectives of the assessments are, (i) to better understand how human activities in regions are altering regional atmospheric, terrestrial, and marine environments, (ii) to provide a sound scientific basis for sustainable regional development, and (iii) to develop the capability of predicting changes in global-regional linkages in the Earth System and to recognize the future consequences of such changes. This book describes such a study for monsoon East Asia, providing a state-of-the-art summary of what we already know, and serves as a basis for identifying knowledge gaps that require study.
Table of ContentsThermal-Dynamic Effects of the Tibetan Plateau; Paleo-Monsoon Variations from Terrestrial Records; Paleo-Monsoon Variability from Deep Sea Sediments; Late Quaternary Paleoclimate Simulations; Recent Trends in Summer Precipitation as a Consequence of Increasing Greenhouse Gases; Atmospheric Sulfate and Black Carbon; Long Range Transport of Dust Aerosols; Land Use and Land Cover Change; Carbon Budget; Agriculture and the Nitrogen Cycle; Biodiversity; Aridification and Desertification; Transport along the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers; Living Resources in Ocean and Coastal Ecosystems; Sea Level Changes; Changes in Population; Application of Clean Technologies; Climate-related Disasters; Assessment of Vulnerability and Adaptation; Integrated Model; Human Drivers of Change.
