A MODEL OF GLOBAL CLIMATE AND ECOLOGY

Abstract

Considerable progress has been made in recent years in understanding the ecology and the effects of man's activities upon regions the size of lakes, estuaries, forests, and grasslands. As man's intrusions into these ecosystems have increased in recent decades, urgent and acute problems have arisen which demand the immediate application and extension of local ecosystem research. There is, in addition, a problem on a larger scale. This is the problem of the long term, persistent effects of man's activities when viewed on a global scale. Will man, carrying his proliferation of works and bodies into the future, seriously (and possibly irreversibly) affect the global climate, his own food supply, and even the biological balance of the planet. The paper discusses the feasibility of answering, in a quantitative way, that question.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0711498

Entities

People

  • Michael Warshaw
  • William R. Graham

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Pollution
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Climate Change
  • Deep Water
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Fossil Fuels
  • Heat Energy
  • Latent Heat
  • New York
  • Ocean Currents
  • Oceans
  • Physical Theories
  • Physics
  • Radiation
  • Surface Temperature
  • Surface Waters

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.