Images from “The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change”

  1. Radiation characteristics of sun and planets
  2. Hypothetical Radiation Balance
  3. The earth’s atmosphere viewed from space
  4. The radiation absorption characteristics of water vapour and carbon dioxide
  5. The natural greenhouse effect
  6. The climate system
  7. Global energy balance
  8. Global water cycle
  9. Global carbon cycle
  10. The origin of atmospheric circulation
  11. Essential features of general circulation of the atmosphere
  12. East-West Walker Circulation
  13. Ocean conveyor belt
  14. Pole-equator-pole radiation balance and poleward energy transport for the atmosphere and ocean
  15. Geometry of the sun-earth system
  16. Annual cycle of rainfall and temperature for Melbourne
  17. The succession of ice ages and interglacials of the past million years
  18. Annual sunspot numbers and Sunspot cycle and temperature relationship
  19. Reduction in global mean temperature following major volcanic eruptions
  20. Climate impacts during an El Niño event
  21. The relationship between the Southern Oscillation Index and the average annual rainfall over Queensland
  22. Estimated global mean temperatures over the past 100,000 years
  23. Historical record of annual rainfall and temperature for Melbourne
  24. Temperatures across Melbourne on a still clear night
  25. Change in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide over the last 1000 years
  26. Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide over the last 1000 years
  27. The enhanced greenhouse effect
  28. Direct radiative forcing from sulphate aerosols
  29. The contribution of the various agents to global, annual mean radiative forcing since the mid 1700s
  30. WMO World Weather Watch surface synoptic observing network
  31. GCOS Surface Network
  32. GCOS Upper-Air Network
  33. Annual mean surface temperatures
  34. Annual mean rainfall
  35. Climate regimes of Australia and the world
  36. Average annual rainfall for Australia (based on the 30-year period 1961-90)
  37. Annual mean temperature series for Cape Otway, Victoria
  38. Australian high-quality temperature network
  39. Australian high-quality rainfall network
  40. Global mean land and sea-surface temperature anomalies
  41. Annual average maximum, mean and minimum temperature for Australia, 1910 to 2002
  42. Trends in annual maximum, mean and minimum temperature 1910-2002
  43. Time series of Australian mean annual rainfall 1900-2002
  44. Trend in mean annual rainfall 1900-2002
  45. Trend in mean annual rainfall 1950-2002
  46. The El Niño and Southern Oscillation 1980-2002
  47. Global temperature anomalies of the stratosphere (top) and troposphere (bottom)
  48. Australian average hot days and cold nights
  49. Frequency of tropical cyclones in the Australian region
  50. Northern Hemisphere temperatures over the past 1000 years
  51. Recent climate trends in historical perspective
  52. Advance and retreat of glaciers in the northern and southern hemispheres and the globe
  53. Components of a fully coupled general circulation model
  54. Grid structure for a general circulation model
  55. Development of climate models over the last 25 years
  56. The modelling continuum
  57. The methodology of greenhouse modelling
  58. Influence of Climate feedbacks on radiative forcing in climate models
  59. Observed and simulated rainfall patterns
  60. Annual mean warming at time of CO2 modelling
  61. Annual mean precipitation change at time of CO2 modelling
  62. Annual mean precipitation change at time of CO2 doubling
  63. A zonal cross-section of temperature changes at the time of CO2 doubling in the BMRC coupled climate model
  64. Mean December-February rainfall anomalies during El Niño events, in (top) control and (bottom) transient simulations of a BMRC climate model
  65. Statistical downscaling
  66. Some of the major influences and events in the international development of the climate issue
  67. The IPCC, UNFCCC and research and monitoring programmes
  68. Climate change feedbacks and flow-on effects
  69. The structure of the IPCC for the conduct of the Fourth Assessment Report
  70. IPCC Process for the preparation of the Third Assessment Report
  71. The four volumes of the IPCC Third Assessment Report
  72. IPCC Working Group 1
  73. Identification of the human influence on climate change
  74. SRES Emissions Scenarios
  75. Projected responses of the climate system to SRES scenarios
  76. Projected global mean surface temperature changes in recent historical context
  77. A schematic representation of recent climate trends and future projections in historical perspective