Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis

Foreword Preface Summary for policy makers Technical summary 1. Introduction 2. Observations: atmosphere and surface 3. Observations: ocean 4. Observations: cryosphere 5. Information from paleoclimate archives 6. Carbon and other biogeochemical cycles 7. Clouds and aerosols 8. Anthropogenic and natural radiative forcing 9. Evaluation of climate models 10. Detection and attribution of climate change: from global to regional 11. Near-term climate change: projections and predictability 12. Long-term climate change: projections, commitments and irreversibility 13. Sea level change 14. Climate phenomena and their relevance for future regional climate change Annex I. Atlas of global and regional climate projections Annex II. Climate system scenario tables Annex III. Glossary Annex IV. Acronyms Annex V. Contributors Annex VI. Expert reviewers Index.