Sentences with phrase «future changes in atmospheric composition»
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Non-polar glacial ice holds a wealth of information about past changes in climate, the environment and especially atmospheric composition, such as variations in temperature, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and emissions of natural aerosols or human - made pollutants... The glaciers therefore hold the memory of former climates and help to predict future environmental changes.
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Changes in atmospheric composition and chemistry over the past century have affected, and those projected into the future will affect, the lifetimes of many greenhouse gases and thus alter the climate forcing of anthropogenic emissions:
Ku, S. Gaffin, and P.L. Kinney, 2007: Air quality in future decades: Determining the relative impacts of changes in climate, emissions, global atmospheric composition, and regional land use.