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Status of Climate Change Research

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This chapter contains an overview of research in climate change science. Research ongoing and recent publications concerning each topic in Chap. 1. Topics of climate change research, such as temperature change on land and sea, impacts of climate change on glacial ice, the extent of permafrost and its carbon content, research into the carbon cycle, ocean acidification and circulation, and General Circulation Climate Models (GCMs) as well as the biology affected by climate change are discussed with references given.

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Farmer, G.T. (2015). Status of Climate Change Research. In: Modern Climate Change Science. SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09222-5_2

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