Climate, Planetary and Evolutionary Sciences

Guido Visconti is Professor Emeritus at Università dell'Aquila, Italy and a member of the National Academy of Lincei. He has held a Fulbright Fellowship (1968-69), University of Maryland (USA). NATO Fellowship, Dept of Meteorology, MIT, USA, (1976, 1977). NATO Senior Fellowship, NCAR, USA (1986 -1987). He has served as committee member of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climatic Change (IPCC) and Member of the International Ozone Commission (WMO). In his long career he was the Principal Investigator UARS Correlative Measurements Program (NASA) and Atmospheric Effects of Supersonic Airplane (AESA, NASA). He was the author of the books, Fundamentals of Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere, Second Edition, (2016), Problems, Philosophy and Politics of Climate Science, (2018) and Fluid dynamics (2020).

• Foreword.- Preface.- Chapter 1: Evolution of the atmospheric composition.- Chapter 2: Downscaling and regional climate.- Chapter 3: Response Theory and Climate Change.- Chapter 4: Stochastic weather and climate models.- Chapter 5: Progress in climate modeling.- Chapter 6: Maximum entropy production and climate.- Chapter 7: Astrobiology and development of human civilization.- Chapter 8: Planets and Exoplanets, habitability sustainability and time.- Chapter 9: Geobiology.- Chapter 10: Fermi paradox.-Chapter 11: The Gaia hypothesis, evolution and ecology.