Climatic Change Journals Publications

Climate change, periodic climate change due to atmospheric changes, as well as interactions within the Earth system between the atmosphere and various other geological, chemical , biological and geographical factors. The atmosphere is a dynamic, constantly moving fluid. Both its physical properties as well as its rate and direction of motion are influenced by a variety of factors including solar radiation, continent geographic position, ocean currents, location and orientation of mountain ranges, atmospheric chemistry and growing vegetation on the earth's surface. All those factors change through time. Some factors change at very short timescales, such as heat distribution within the oceans, atmospheric chemistry, and vegetation on the surface. Others, like the position of the continents, and the location and height of the mountain ranges, change over very long periods of time.