Call number:
9783030249823 (e-book)
Description / Table of Contents:
This two-volume book provides a comprehensive, detailed understanding of paleoclimatology beginning by describing the “proxy data” from which quantitative climate parameters are reconstructed and finally by developing a comprehensive Earth system model able to simulate past climates of the Earth. It compiles contributions from specialists in each field who each have an in-depth knowledge of their particular area of expertise.
The first volume is devoted to “Finding, dating and interpreting the evidence”. It describes the different geo-chronological technical methods used in paleoclimatology. Different fields of geosciences such as: stratigraphy, magnetism, dendrochronology, sedimentology, are drawn from and proxy reconstructions from ice sheets, terrestrial (speleothems, lakes, and vegetation) and oceanic data, are used to reconstruct the ancient climates of the Earth.
The second volume, entitled “Investigation into ancient climates,” focuses on building comprehensive models of past climate evolution. The chapters are based on understanding the processes driving the evolution of each component of the Earth system (atmosphere, ocean, ice). This volume provides both an analytical understanding of each component using a hierarchy of models (from conceptual to very sophisticated 3D general circulation models) and a synthetic approach incorporating all of these components to explore the evolution of the Earth as a global system.
As a whole this book provides the reader with a complete view of data reconstruction and modeling of the climate of the Earth from deep time to present day with even an excursion to include impacts on future climate.
Type of Medium:
12
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 478 Seiten)
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Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:
9783030249823
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978-3-030-24982-3
ISSN:
1863-4621
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1863-463X
Series Statement:
Frontiers in earth sciences
URL:
Ebook (access only within the AWI network)
Language:
English
Note:
Contents
Volume 1
1 The Climate System: Its Functioning and History / Sylvie Joussaume and Jean-Claude Duplessy
2 The Changing Face of the Earth Throughout the Ages / Frédéric Fluteau and Pierre Sepulchre
3 Introduction to Geochronology / Hervé Guillou
4 Carbon-14 / Martine Paterne, Élisabeth Michel, and Christine Hatté et Jean-Claude Dutay
5 The 40 K/ 40 Ar and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar Methods / Hervé Guillou, Sébastien Nomade, and Vincent Scao
6 Dating of Corals and Other Geological Samples via the Radioactive Disequilibrium of Uranium and Thorium Isotopes / Norbert Frank and Freya Hemsing
7 Magnetostratigraphy: From a Million to a Thousand Years / Carlo Laj, James E. T. Channell, and Catherine Kissel
8 Dendrochronology / Frédéric Guibal and Joël Guiot
9 The Dating of Ice-Core Archives / Frédéric Parrenin
10 Reconstructing the Physics and Circulation of the Atmosphere / Valérie Masson-Delmotte and Joël Guiot
11 Air-Ice Interface: Polar Ice / Valérie Masson-Delmotte and Jean Jouzel
12 Air-Vegetation Interface: Pollen / Joël Guiot
13 Ground-Air Interface: The Loess Sequences, Markers of Atmospheric Circulation / Denis-Didier Rousseau and Christine Hatté
14 Air-Ground Interface: Reconstruction of Paleoclimates Using Speleothems / Dominique Genty and Ana Moreno
15 Air-Interface: d18O Records of Past Meteoric Water Using Benthic Ostracods from Deep Lakes / Ulrich von Grafenstein and Inga Labuhn
16 Vegetation-Atmosphere Interface: Tree Rings / Joël Guiot and Valérie Daux
17 Air-Vegetation Interface: An Example of the Use of Historical Data on Grape Harvests / Valérie Daux
18 Air-Ground Interface: Sediment Tracers in Tropical Lakes / David Williamson
19 Air-water Interface: Tropical Lake Diatoms and Isotope Hydrology Modeling / Florence Sylvestre, Françoise Gasse, Françoise Vimeux, and Benjamin Quesada
20 Air-Ice Interface: Tropical Glaciers / Françoise Vimeux
21 Climate and the Evolution of the Ocean: The Paleoceanographic Data / Thibaut Caley, Natalia Vázquez Riveiros, Laurent Labeyrie, Elsa Cortijo, and Jean-Claude Duplessy
Volume 2
22 Climate Evolution on the Geological Timescale and the Role of Paleogeographic Changes / Frédéric Fluteau and Pierre Sepulchre
23 Biogeochemical Cycles and Aerosols Over the Last Million Years / Nathaelle Bouttes, Laurent Bopp, Samuel Albani, Gilles Ramstein, Tristan Vadsaria, and Emilie Capron
24 The Cryosphere and Sea Level / Catherine Ritz, Vincent Peyaud, Claire Waelbroeck, and Florence Colleoni
25 Modeling and Paleoclimatology / Masa Kageyama and Didier Paillard
26 The Precambrian Climate / Yves Goddéris, Gilles Ramstein, and Guillaume Le Hir
27 The Phanerozoic Climate / Yves Goddéris, Yannick Donnadieu, and Alexandre Pohl
28 Climate and Astronomical Cycles / Didier Paillard
29 Rapid Climate Variability: Description and Mechanisms / Masa Kageyama, Didier M. Roche, Nathalie Combourieu Nebout, and Jorge Alvarez-Solas
30 An Introduction to the Holocene and Anthropic Disturbance / Pascale Braconnot and Pascal Yiou
31 From the Climates of the Past to the Climates of the Future / Sylvie Charbit, Nathaelle Bouttes, Aurélien Quiquet, Laurent Bopp, Gilles Ramstein, Jean-Louis Dufresne, and Julien Cattiaux
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