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1.1 FromWorld Climate News, number 16, July 1999. Geneva: World Meteorological
Organisation. A similar map is prepared and published each year. Data from Climate
Prediction Center, NOAA, USA. page 3
1.2 Figure 2.7 from Watson, R.et al. (eds.) 2001.Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report.
Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Third Assessment Report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 5
1.3 From The role of the World Meteorological Organizationin the International Decade
for Natural Disaster Reduction.World Meteorological Organization1990; 745.
Geneva: World Meteorological Organization. 6
1.4 Adapted from: Canby, T. Y. 1984. El Niño’s ill wind.National Geographic Magazine,
pp. 144–83. 7
1.5 Figure SPM-1 from The summary for policymakers in Watson,Climate Change 2001:
Synthesis Report.1 1
2.1 The radiation balance of planet Earth. 15
2.2 A greenhouse has a similar effect to the atmosphere on the incoming solar radiation and
the emitted thermal radiation. 18
2.3 The distribution of temperature in a convective atmosphere (full line). 19
2.4 Spectrum taken with the infrared interferometer spectrometer flown on the satellite
Nimbus 4 in 1971 and described by Hanel, R. A.et al. 1971.Applied Optics, 10 :
1376–82. 19
2.5 The blanketing effect of greenhouse gases. 20
2.6 The radiation budget for the atmosphere. 21
2.7 From Houghton, J. T. 2002.The Physics of Atmospheres, third edition. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. 22
2.8 Illustrating the enhanced greenhouse gas effect. 24
3.1 Figure 1.1 from Bolin, B. and Sukumar, R. 2000. Global perspective. In Watson, R. T.,
Noble, I. R., Bolin, B., Ravindranath, N. H., Verardo, D. J., Dokken, D. J. (eds.)Land
use, Land-use Change, and Forestry, IPCC Special Report. Chapter 1. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. 30
3.2 Figure 10 from Technicalsummary. In Houghton, J. T., Ding, Y., Griggs, D. J., Noguer,
M., van der Linden, P. J., Dai, X., Maskell, K., Johnson, C. A. (eds.)Climate Change
2001: The Scientific Basis.Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment
Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. 32


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