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Global and Regional Patterns of Climate Change: Recent Predictions for the Arctic

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Global Change and Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 124))

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Certain gases in the atmosphere, commonly called greenhouse gases, absorb and emit radiation at wavelengths at which the Earth’s surface emits. Consequently, some of the radiation emitted to space through the top of the atmosphere emanates not from the surface but from within the atmosphere. As the intensity of radiation is proportional to the fourth power of the temperature of the emitter, and the atmosphere is mostly colder than the surface, these gases reduce the radiative loss of energy to space. This is called the “greenhouse effect.”

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Global Change Research Group, San Diego State University, 92182, San Diego, CA, USA

    Walter C. Oechel

  2. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, Sheffield Centre for Arctic Ecology, University of Sheffield, S1D 5BR, Sheffield, UK

    Terry V. Callaghan

  3. Department of Vertebrate Zoology and General Ecology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Tagir G. Gilmanov

  4. Arctic Adaptation Division, Canadian Climate Centre, Downsview, Ontario, Canada

    Barrie Maxwell

  5. Department of Systematic Botany, University of Göteborg, S-413 19, Göteborg, Sweden

    Ulf Molau

  6. Institute of Biology, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Bjartmar Sveinbjörnsson

  7. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska, 99775, Anchorage, AK, USA

    Bjartmar Sveinbjörnsson

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Rowntree, P.R. (1997). Global and Regional Patterns of Climate Change: Recent Predictions for the Arctic. In: Oechel, W.C., et al. Global Change and Arctic Terrestrial Ecosystems. Ecological Studies, vol 124. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2240-8_5

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