Current Issues in Climate Research: Proceedings of the EC Climatology Programme Symposium, Sophia Antipolis, France, 2–5 October 1984

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Opening Address....Pages 3-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Palaeoclimate in the E.C. Climate Programme....Pages 8-9
Climate Modelling....Pages 10-15
Anthropogenic Climate Perturbations....Pages 16-22
Impact of climate and climate variations on European resources....Pages 23-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
The Impact on Europe of Large-Scale Climatic Changes: The Onset of Glaciation and the Last Deglaciation....Pages 28-44
Climatic History from Ice Core Studies in Greenland Data Correction Procedures....Pages 45-60
Air-Sea Interaction During the Last 100 Years and Time Scales of Climatic Fluctuations....Pages 61-76
Modelling the Astronomical Theory of Paleoclimates in the Time and Frequency Domain....Pages 77-96
Climate Reconstruction Using Historical Sources....Pages 97-100
Stages of Climatic Change from Full Glacial to Holocene in Northwest Spain, Southern France and Italy: A Comparison of the Atlantic Coast and the Mediterranean Basin....Pages 101-112
Paleoclimatic Reconstruction in Belgium and in Greece Based on Quaternary Lithostratigraphic Sequences....Pages 113-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Evidence of Bimodality in the Statistics of Northern Hemisphere Circulation....Pages 132-138
Simulation of European Climate with an Atmospheric General Circulation Model....Pages 139-150
Modelling the Impact of Soil Properties on European Climate....Pages 151-162
Interactive Ocean-Atmosphere Models for Climate Forecasting....Pages 163-171
Climate Modelling Activities at the Max-Planck-Institute of Meteorology, Hamburg....Pages 172-194
Ocean Modelling in Cambridge....Pages 195-206
Subpolar Circulation, Deep Water Formation and Air — Sea — Ice Interactions in Labrador and Greenland Seas....Pages 207-218
Development of an Economical Soil Model for Climate Simulation....Pages 219-226
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
On Modelling the Effects of C0 2 on Climate....Pages 228-239
CO 2 and Climate: Information from Antarctic Ice Core Studies....Pages 240-246
Atmospheric C02 Concentration in Subantarctic Countries....Pages 247-257
The Influence of Man-Made SO 2 and Particle Emission on the Global Aerosol Concentration and the Optical Properties of the Atmosphere....Pages 258-268
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
Socio-Economic Impacts of a Climatic Change Due to a Doubling of Atmospheric C0 2 Content....Pages 270-286
The Use of Crop Models in Assessing Likely Effects of Variation in Climate....Pages 287-293
The Effects of Elevated Carbon Dioxide Levels on the Growth of Crop Plants: An Attempt to Predict the Consequences for Grassland and Maize Production in Europe....Pages 294-308
Agroclimatic Classification of Central Italy....Pages 309-322
Front Matter....Pages 323-323
World Climate Research Programme, Plan and Implementation....Pages 324-333
C0 2 Programme of US Department of Energy....Pages 334-338
Satellite Climatology....Pages 339-340
Measurement of the Radiation Pressures by Accelerometry: A New Way to the Determination of the Earth Radiation Budget. Result Obtained with Castor/Cactus Experiment....Pages 341-352
Back Matter....Pages 353-356