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Author: Richard W. Battarbee Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1402021208 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 653
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This book focuses on two complementary time-scales, the Holocene (approximately the last 11,500 years) and the last glacial-interglacial cycle (approximately the last 130,000 years) to synthesize evidence of climate variability at the regional and continental scale across Europe and Africa. This is the first examination of historical climate variations at such a scale, and thus sets a benchmark for future research.
Author: Richard W. Battarbee Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1402021208 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 653
Book Description
This book focuses on two complementary time-scales, the Holocene (approximately the last 11,500 years) and the last glacial-interglacial cycle (approximately the last 130,000 years) to synthesize evidence of climate variability at the regional and continental scale across Europe and Africa. This is the first examination of historical climate variations at such a scale, and thus sets a benchmark for future research.
Author: D. W. H. Walton Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110700392X Category : Antarctica Languages : en Pages : 355
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A dramatically illustrated book, by leading international scientists, which describes Antarctica's central role in global scientific research.
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Le climat de la Terre change, n'a cessé de changer au cours des temps et continuera de le faire dans l'avenir. Comprendre l'évolution du climat de la Terre et ses multiples variations n'est pas seulement un défi académique. C'est aussi un préalable indispensable pour mieux cerner le climat futur et ses incidences possibles sur la Société de demain. Jean-Claude Duplessy et Gilles Ramstein ont rassemblé une cinquantaine de chercheurs parmi les plus actifs de leur discipline pour présenter dans un premier volume les bases des techniques de reconstructions des climats passés leur cadre chronologique. Dans un second volume, les auteurs montrent les approches les plus modernes pour reconstituer le fonctionnement du système climatique dans le passé à partir d'observations et de modèles. Ce livre permettra à tous ceux qui veulent se forger leur propre opinion d'acquérir l'information indispensable pour se faire une idée objective du climat, de ses variations passées et futures, afin de juger avec le recul nécessaire de l'importance du changement climatique en cours.Jean Claude Duplessy, géochimiste, est directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS. Ses recherches en paléoclimatologie font mondialement autorité.Gilles Ramstein, est directeur de recherche au CEA. Au sein du Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, ses travaux visent à modéliser les changements climatiques à diverses échelles de temps.
Author: Henry N. Houérou Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3540851925 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 252
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Covering an area of over 130 million km2 spanning the Mediterranean, equator and tropics, the African continent features a spectacular geographic diversity. Consequently, it is characterised by extremely variable climatic, edaphic and ecological conditions, associated with a wide range of natural vegetation and wildlife, as well as human population density, crops and livestock. In this book, Henry Le Houérou presents his bioclimatic and biogeographic classification of Africa. The extensive data provide the basis for comparisons between various African regions, and with regions on other continents such as Latin America or the Indian subcontinent. The results constitute a rational basis for national, regional and sub-regional rural development planning, and for agricultural research dealing with aspects such as plant and animal introductions, the extrapolation or interpolation of experimental or developmental findings, and ecosystems dynamics. Possible problems of applications are also examined.
Author: Gilles Ramstein Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030249824 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 485
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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.
Author: Sarah E. Cornell Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139560549 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 609
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Explaining the what, the how and the why of climate science, this multidisciplinary new book provides a review of research from the last decade, illustrated with cutting-edge data and observations. A key focus is the development of analysis tools that can be used to demonstrate options for mitigating and adapting to increasing climate risks. Emphasis is given to the importance of Earth system feedback mechanisms and the role of the biosphere. The book explains advances in modelling, process understanding and observations, and the development of consistent and coherent studies of past, present and 'possible' climates. This highly illustrated, data-rich book is written by leading scientists involved in QUEST, a major UK-led research programme. It forms a concise and up-to-date reference for academic researchers or students in the fields of climatology, Earth system science and ecology, and also a vital resource for professionals and policymakers working on any aspect of global change.
Author: Elizabeth Truswell Publisher: ANU Press ISBN: 1760462942 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 247
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In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international Deep Sea Drilling Project to venture into the seas surrounding Antarctica, confronting severe weather and ever-present icebergs. A Memory of Ice presents the science and the excitement of that voyage in a manner readable for non-scientists. Woven into the modern story is the history of early explorers, scientists and navigators who had gone before into the Southern Ocean. The departure of the Glomar Challenger from Fremantle took place 100 years after the HMS Challenger weighed anchor from Portsmouth, England, at the start of its four-year voyage, sampling and dredging the world’s oceans. Sailing south, the Glomar Challenger crossed the path of James Cook’s HMS Resolution, then on its circumnavigation of Antarctica in search of the Great South Land. Encounters with Lieutenant Charles Wilkes of the US Exploring Expedition and Douglas Mawson of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition followed. In the Ross Sea, the voyages of the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror under James Clark Ross, with the young Joseph Hooker as botanist, were ever present. The story of the Glomar Challenger’s iconic voyage is largely told through the diaries of the author, then a young scientist experiencing science at sea for the first time. It weaves together the physical history of Antarctica with how we have come to our current knowledge of the polar continent. This is an attractive, lavishly illustrated and curiosity-satisfying read for the general public as well as for scholars of science.
Author: Vinod Tewari Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 940070397X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 739
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STROMATOLITES: Interaction of Microbes with Sediments provides an overview and latest information about the formation of Stromatolites as a result of interaction of microbes with sediments. Eighty-three expert scientists from twenty-seven countries present the chapters in this volume which have been reviewed by thirty four referees. The volume deals with ancient to modern examples of stromatolites and microorganisms which are observed in various diverse environments, such as: marine, nonmarine, lacustrine and extreme geographical areas covering almost the whole earth. The reviews are original articles written by leading experienced experts, some chapters deal with latest instrumental techniques used for the study of microbes and Stromatolites. Other chapters have been contributed by young researchers who revealed updated data on Stromatolites. The astrobiological implications of early microbiota, sulfur isotopic ratios, microbialites in extreme conditions on earth has opened up new vistas in the search of extraterrestrial life.
Author: Margherita Mussi Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 0306471957 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 412
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This book aims to synthesize more than 600,000 years of Italian prehistory, beginning with the Lower Paleolithic and ending with the last hunter-gatherers of the early Holocene. The author treats such issues as the development of social structure, the rise and fall of specific cultural traditions, climatic change, modifications of the landscape, fauna and flora, and environmental adaptation and exploitation and includes detailed descriptions of the most important sites.
Author: Adam Markham Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9401727309 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 456
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Climate change represents one of the most alarming long-term threats to ecosystems the world over. This new collection of papers provides, for the first time, an overview of the potentially serious impact that climate change may have on tropical forests. The authors, a multi-disciplinary group of leading experts in climatology, forestry, ecology and conservation biology, present a state-of-knowledge snapshot of how tropical forests are likely to react to the changes being wrought on our planet's atmosphere and climate. Tropical forests represent extraordinary harbours for biological diversity, and yet as deforestation and degradation continue apace, they are under greater pressure from human impacts than ever before. Climate change adds yet another threat to these valuable ecosystems, and this volume demonstrates just how significant a problem this may really be. The authors identify certain types of forest, including tropical montane cloud forest that may be particularly vulnerable. They also show the strong likelihood of global warming aggravating problems in already fragmented forest areas.
Author: Richard W. Battarbee
Author: Richard W. Battarbee
Author: D. W. H. Walton
Author: Jean-Claude Duplessy
Author: Henry N. Houérou
Author: Gilles Ramstein
Author: Sarah E. Cornell
Author: Elizabeth Truswell
Author: Vinod Tewari
Author: Margherita Mussi
Author: Adam Markham