Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts: 193 (Geophysical Monograph Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 087590484X ISBN 13: 9780875904849

Publisher: American Geophysical Union, 2011

Synopsis

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 193.

Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts brings together a diverse group of paleoproxy records such as ice cores, marine sediments, terrestrial (lakes and speleothems) archives, and coupled ocean-atmosphere climate models to document recent advances in understanding the mechanisms of abrupt climate changes. Since the discovery of the Dansgaard-Oeschger events in Greenland ice cores and the subsequent discovery of their contemporary events in the marine sediments of the North Atlantic, the search for these abrupt, millennial-scale events across the globe has intensified, and as a result, the number of paleoclimatic records chronicling such events has increased. The volume highlights include discussions of records of past climate variability, meridional overturning circulation, land-ocean-atmosphere interactions, feedbacks in the climate system, and global temperature anomalies. Abrupt Climate Change will be of interest to students, researchers, academics, and policy makers who are concerned about abrupt climate change and its potential impact on society.

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About the Author

Harunur Rashid and Leonid Polyak are the authors of Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts, published by Wiley.

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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 193

Edition details

• Publisher: American Geophysical Union
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087590484X
• ISBN 13: 9780875904849
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242
• Editor: Rashid Harunur, Polyak Leonid, Mosley-Thompson Ellen