The Legacy of Svante Arrhenius Understanding the Greenhouse Effect

From: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society | Date: December 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

The Legacy of Svante Arrhenius Understanding the Greenhouse Effect. H. Rodhe and R. Charlson, Eds. 1998. 276 pp. Price unavailable. Softbound. Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. ISBN 917190-0284.

This commemorative volume honors the contributions of Svante Arrhenius to our understanding of greenhouse-induced climate change. The papers included in the book were also published in a special edition of the journal Ambio. Subscribers and journal readers need not buy the book.

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