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Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis

WGII - WGIII - SYR - All AR4

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Report by Chapters

  1. Front Matter
  2. Summary for Policymakers
  3. Technical Summary
  4. Frequently Asked Questions

Chapters

  1. 1. Historical Overview of Climate Change Science
  2. 2. Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing
  3. 3. Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change
    • Supplementary Material: Appendix 3.B. Techniques, Error Estimation and Measurement Systems (including references)

  4. 4. Observations: Changes in Snow, Ice and Frozen Ground
  5. 5. Observations: Oceanic Climate Change and Sea Level
  6. 6. Palaeoclimate
  7. 7. Couplings Between Changes in the Climate System and Biogeochemistry
  8. 8. Climate Models and their Evaluation
  9. 9. Understanding and Attributing Climate Change
  10. 10. Global Climate Projections
  11. 11. Regional Climate Projections
  1. Annexes: (1)Glossary, (2)Authors, (3)Reviewers, (4)Acronyms
  2. Index
  3. Uncertainty Guidance Note for the Fourth Assessment Report
  4. Figures
Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007 Solomon, S., D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller (eds.) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.

Drafts and Review Materials

The drafts of the Working Group contribution to the AR4 that were submitted for expert and/or government review, the expert and government review comments received, and the author responses to these comments are available here. These drafts, review comments, and author responses are not the results of the assessment and may not be cited, quoted, or distributed as such. Only the approved and accepted Report may be cited or quoted as the results of the assessment.

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Technical Summary - - text/figs -

Chapters

Title First Order Draft Second Order Draft Final Draft
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1. Historical Overview of Climate Change Science text/ fig pdf text/ fig pdf text/ fig
2. Changes in Atmospheric Constituents and in Radiative Forcing text/ fig pdf text/ fig (1/ 2) pdf text/ fig
3. Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change text/ fig (1/ 2) pdf text/ fig1/ fig2 pdf text/ fig
4. Observations: Changes in Snow, Ice and Frozen Ground text/ fig pdf text/ fig pdf text/ fig
5. Observations: Oceanic Climate Change and Sea Level text/ fig pdf text/ fig pdf text/ fig
6. Palaeoclimate text/ fig pdf text/ fig (1/ 2) pdf text/ fig
7. Couplings Between Changes in the Climate System and Biogeochemistry text/ fig pdf text/ fig (1/ 2) pdf text/ fig
8. Climate Models and their Evaluation text/ fig pdf text/ fig pdf text/ fig
9. Understanding and Attributing Climate Change text/ fig pdf text/ fig (1/ 2) pdf text/ fig
10. Global Climate Projections text/ fig (1/ 2/ 3) pdf text/ fig (1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5) pdf text/ fig
11. Regional Climate Projections text/ fig (1/ 2) pdf text/ fig (1/ 2) pdf text/ fig

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