Concepts

A quick guide to climate change

Earth as a system

NASA-Topex/Poseidon Oceanography mission

IPCC 4th Assessment report on Climate Change, 2007

IPPC FAQs

Climate Change science

Climate change science FAQs

Climate Change concepts

Ocean circulation concepts

Ocean currents

Water cycle

Oceans and climate

• properties of water

• ocean circulation

• how oceans take up carbon dioxide

The Ocean and Climate

UNEP/GRID Vital climate graphics (based on the IPCC's 1995 second assessment report and published in 2000)

UNEP Vital climate graphics update (based on the IPCC's 2001 third assessment report and published in 2005)