Global Warming White Papers
Global Warming
Overview The "greenhouse effect" is the term used to describe the retention of heat in the earth's lower atmosphere (troposphere). In colloquial usage it often refers to the enhanced global warming which is considered likely to occur because of the increasing concentrations of certain trace gases in the atmosphere. These gases are generally known as greenhouse gases, or more specifically as radiative gases. Concentrations of them have increased significantly during this century, and a large part of this increase is attributed to human sources, i.e. it is anthropogenic.
| Publisher | Uranium Information Centre Ltd | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | May 2001 | Downloads | 249 |
| Format | White Papers | ||
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Changing the Face of High-Performance Computing through Greater Performance, Collaboration, and Affordability
With the ever-increasing demand for cost-effective compute power, High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters, based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications versus proprietary systems, have rapidly advanced to the forefront of computational...
Global Warming
The "greenhouse effect" is the term used to describe the retention of heat in the earth's lower atmosphere (troposphere). In colloquial usage it often refers to the enhanced global warming...
HCTN 28: The Representation of Water Vapour and Its Dependence on Vertical Resolution in the Hadley Centre Climate Model
Simulations of the Hadley Centre Atmospheric climate Model version 3, HadAM3, are used to investigate the impact of increasing vertical resolution on simulated climate. In particular, improvements in the representation of water...
Radiation and the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
Radiation can arise from human activities or it can be from natural sources. Most of the radiation that people are exposed to is from natural sources. These include: radioactivity in...
Global Climatic Impacts of a Collapse of the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation
Part of the uncertainty in predictions by climate models results from limited knowledge of the stability of the thermohaline circulation of the ocean. Here we provide estimates of the response of pre-industrial...



