The Medieval Warm Period - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9401045186 ISBN 13: 9789401045186

Publisher: Springer, 2012

Synopsis

The Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age are widely considered to have been the major features of the Earth's climate over the past 1000 years. In this volume the issue of whether there really was a Medieval Warm Period, and if so, where and when, is addressed. The types of evidence examined include historical documents, tree rings, ice cores, glacial-geological records, borehole temperature, paleoecological data and records of solar receipts inferred from cosmogenic isotopes. Growth in the availability of several of these types of data in recent years, and technical advances in their derivation and use, warrant this state-of-the-art re-examination of Medieval Warm Period.
The book will be of value to all those with an interest in the natural variability of the climate system, for example those concerned with anticipating and detecting anthropogenic climate change.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Henry F. Diaz is a Research Meteorologist in the Earth System Research Laboratory at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). He has worked on a variety of climate issues at NOAA over the last 15 years, particularly the impact of climatic variation on water resources of the western United States. He is recognized as an expert on the El Ni o Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon and coedited El Ni o: Historical and Paleoclimatic Aspects of the Southern Oscillation, also published by Cambridge University Press (1992).

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9401045186
• ISBN 13: 9789401045186
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 237
• Editor: Hughes Malcolm K., Diaz Henry F.