Abrupt Climate Change

ISBN 10: 087590484X / ISBN 13: 9780875904849

Published by American Geophysical Union, 2011

pp. 242 Illus. Seller Inventory # 3555551

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.

About the Author:

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

Bibliographic Details

Title: Abrupt Climate Change
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New