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Geomorphological and Climatological Perspectives on Land Surface -Climate Change

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Linking Climate Change to Land Surface Change

Part of the book series: Advances in Global Change Research ((AGLO,volume 6))

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The climate system can be considered to consist of the atmosphere, oceans, biosphere, cryosphere (ice and snow) and lithosphere. In this book we have focused on the interactions between the first and last of these, the atmosphere and its long-term expression, the climate, and the lithosphere or more specifically, the land surface. There are numerous and often highly complex linkages between climate and land surfaces which are still relatively poorly understood. As well as trying to understand the complex processes that operate today, there are the added difficulties in trying to understand how these processes may have operated and changed in the past as well as trying to determine how they may change in the future.

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Kniveton, D., McLaren, S. (2000). Geomorphological and Climatological Perspectives on Land Surface -Climate Change. In: McLaren, S.J., Kniveton, D.R. (eds) Linking Climate Change to Land Surface Change. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48086-7_13

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