Education
He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Washington in 1990.
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The Global Carbon Cycle is a short introduction to this essential geochemical driver of the Earth's climate system, written by one of the world's leading climate-science experts. In this one-of-a-kind primer, David Archer engages readers in clear and simple terms about the many ways the global carbon cycle is woven into our climate system. He begins with a concise overview of the subject, and then looks at the carbon cycle on three different time scales, describing how the cycle interacts with climate in very distinct ways in each. On million-year time scales, feedbacks in the carbon cycle stabilize Earth's climate and oxygen concentrations. Archer explains how on hundred-thousand-year glacial/interglacial time scales, the carbon cycle in the ocean amplifies climate change, and how, on the human time scale of decades, the carbon cycle has been dampening climate change by absorbing fossil-fuel carbon dioxide into the oceans and land biosphere. A central question of the book is whether the carbon cycle could once again act to amplify climate change in centuries to come, for example through melting permafrost peatlands and methane hydrates. The Global Carbon Cycle features a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, and explanations of equations, as well as a forward-looking discussion of open questions about the global carbon cycle.
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university professor earth scientist
He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Washington in 1990.
He has published research on the carbon cycle of the ocean and the sea floor. He has worked on the history of atmospheric Carbon dioxide concentration, the expectation of fossil fuel Carbon dioxide over geologic time scales in the future, and the impact of Carbon dioxide on future ice age cycles, ocean methane hydrate decomposition, and coral reefs. He is a contributor to the RealClimate blog.
He teaches classes on global warming, environmental chemistry, and global geochemical cycles.
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