Items related to Climate since AD 1500
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Review:
"A most valuable compilation . . . this volume succeeds admirably in bringing together many of the multifaceted data from which future progess can proceed."
-"Nature
"This volume is a timely, important contribution . . . A valuable book, especially at graduate and professional levels, but of interest to anyone concerned with the natural variability of the earth's climate."
-"Choice
"This is an excellent collection of review articles on documentary-, dedro-, and ice-core analysis for the last 500 years."
-"Artic and Alpine Research
Synopsis:
-"Nature
"This volume is a timely, important contribution . . . A valuable book, especially at graduate and professional levels, but of interest to anyone concerned with the natural variability of the earth's climate."
-"Choice
"This is an excellent collection of review articles on documentary-, dedro-, and ice-core analysis for the last 500 years."
-"Artic and Alpine Research
This is an up-to-date assessment of how climate had varied over the last few hundred years. The period since about A.D. 1500 was chosen for this study because this was the interval for which the most data could be assembled, and it was also a period of particular interest, encompassing the so-called "Little Ice Age", as well as a period of unusual solar activity (the Maunder minimum) and several exceptionally large explosive volcanic eruptions. The main criterion for selecting types of data was to consider only those sources which had annual (or better) resolution, which largely meant a focus on historical documentary records, dendroclimatic data and ice cores. The book contains three main sections divided along these lines. There is also a fourth section dealing with potentially important forcing factors (causes of climatic change) which have relevance for understanding the records described in the preceding sections. No chapters deal with ice cores from Greenland and the Canadian Arctic because there is simply not enough known to produce a study of Africa and South Asia. In fact, tropical regions in general are poorly represented by high resolution paleoclimatic data.
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- PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0044454872
- ISBN 13 9780044454878
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages560
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