Understanding Climate Change Impacts: A Visual Overview

1. 075 Chapter 7 frontispiece. The Sahel of Africa E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Photograph by D. Haberlah

2. 076 Figure 7.1. The change in the average global surface air temperature relative to the 1961-1990 mean E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Trenberth et al., 2007

3. 077 Figure 7.2. Geographic trends in temperature, 1979-2005 E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Trenberth et al., 2007

4. 078 Figure 7.3. The change in global temperature deduced from the glacier advances and retreats, 1600-2000 E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Oerlemans, 2005

5. 079 Figure 7.4. The globally averaged temperatures of the lower stratosphere and the middle troposphere from various data sets E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Lanzante et al., 2006

6. 080 Figure 7.5. Changes in the number of cold and warm days and nights per year relative to the mean values, 1951-2002 E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Alexander et al., 2006

7. 081 Figure 7.6. The change in the spatial and globally averaged Palmer Drought Severity Index, 1900-2002 E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Trenbreth et al., 2007

8. 082 Figure 7.7. Dust storm, April 18, 1935 E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: NOAA

9. 083 Figure 7.8. Records of drought in the American West, 800 to present, in terms of drought area relative to the long-term mean E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Cook et al., 2004

10. 084 Figure 7.9. Near the headwaters of the Indus River, Karakoram Range, Pakistan E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Photograph by E. Wesker

11. 085 Figure 7.10. The extreme summer temperature in 2003, compared with summer temperatures from 1864 to 2002, Switzerland E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: Schar et al., 2004

12. 086 Figure 7.11. Fire in Yellowstone National Park, 1988 E.A. Mathez, 2009, Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future, Columbia University Press. Source: National Park Service