Author: Fabio Florindo Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 0080931618 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 606
Book Description
Antarctic Climate Evolution is the first book dedicated to furthering knowledge on the evolution of the world's largest ice sheet over its ~34 million year history. This volume provides the latest information on subjects ranging from terrestrial and marine geology to sedimentology and glacier geophysics. - An overview of Antarctic climate change, analyzing historical, present-day and future developments - Contributions from leading experts and scholars from around the world - Informs and updates climate change scientists and experts in related areas of study
Author: Richard B. Alley Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400852242 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 246
Book Description
In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. In The Two-Mile Time Machine, Alley tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. He explains that humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate compared to the wild fluctuations that characterized most of prehistory. He warns that our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years and tells us what we need to know in order to understand and perhaps overcome climate changes in the future. In a new preface, the author weighs in on whether our understanding of global climate change has altered in the years since the book was first published, what the latest research tells us, and what he is working on next.
Author: Vivien Gornitz Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1402045514 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 1062
Book Description
One of Springer’s Major Reference Works, this book gives the reader a truly global perspective. It is the first major reference work in its field. Paleoclimate topics covered in the encyclopedia give the reader the capability to place the observations of recent global warming in the context of longer-term natural climate fluctuations. Significant elements of the encyclopedia include recent developments in paleoclimate modeling, paleo-ocean circulation, as well as the influence of geological processes and biological feedbacks on global climate change. The encyclopedia gives the reader an entry point into the literature on these and many other groundbreaking topics.
Author: E. Jansen Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
Provides an update of results on the record of past ocean variability since the end of the ice age. This work gives an overview of many aspects of natural climate variability and give both scholars and students a means of keeping up to date on recent developments in the field.
Author: Robert A. Peterson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Ice Languages : en Pages : 60
Book Description
The literature search was conducted in order to determine the amount and type of reliable antarctic ice data available and to tabulate the distribution and characteristics of these data. In this search, approximately 900 bibliography cards were examined. Of these 900 cards, about 400 sources were evaluated, and some 45 were tabulated. In addition, a list of supplementary sources is presented. (Author).
Author: Huadong Guo Publisher: Springer ISBN: 9811380317 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 641
Book Description
Global change involves complex and far-reaching variations in the Earth’s systems, and satellite observations have been widely used in global change studies. Over the past five decades, Earth observation has developed into a comprehensive system that can conduct dynamic monitoring of the land, the oceans and the atmosphere at the local, regional and even global scale. At the same time, although a large number of Earth observation satellites have been launched, very few of them are used in global change studies. The lack of scientific satellite programs greatly hinders research on global change. This book proposes using a series of global change scientific satellites to establish a scientific observation grid for global environmental change monitoring from space, and offers the first comprehensive review of lunar-based Earth observation. These scientific satellites could provide not only basic datasets but also scientific support in facilitating advances in international global change research.
Author: Fabio Florindo
Author: W. Dansgaard
Author: Per Gloersen
Author: Roger G. Barry
Author: Richard B. Alley
Author: Vivien Gornitz
Author: E. Jansen
Author: Robert A. Peterson
Author: United States. Naval Oceanographic Office
Author: Huadong Guo