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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
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26 Engineering Response to Climate Change
presented in a talk at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Annual
Conference in 2007 by Dr. Michael Schlesinger. Note that the rate of decrease
appears to have increased over time.
This is supported by the more recent data shown in Figure 1.18, as the
shape of the curved line exhibits an increasing slope.
Observed greenland mass balance
19611990
Hanna EA
(2005)
Met. Models
& in situ data
Growing
Shrinking
Velicogna & Wahr (2006, GRACE)
Plot by
M.E. Schlesinger
September 2006
1993/41998/9
1998/92004
omas (2006)
Satellite laser
altimetry
Rignot &
Kanagaratnam
(2006)
Satellite radar
interferometry
19922002
Zwally ...
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