9783540432012 - Climate Development and History of the North Atlantic Realm (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover, x + 486 pages, NOT ex-library. Printed in Germany. Weight 1190g. Mildly used with limited signs of light wear, previous owner's name in pen on the front endpaper. Book is clean with unmarked text, free of stamps, securely bound. Boards show faint shelfwear, minor scuff-marks to edges, some abrasion marks mid-spine. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: - Concepts and Ideas: - Climate History and the Great Geophysical Experiment; Towards a History of Ideas on Anthropogenic Climate Change; - Decadal to Millennial Variability: - Climate Dynamics of the North Atlantic and NW-Europe: An Observation-Based Overview; Holocene Climate Variability on Centennial-to-Millennial Time Scales: 1. Climate Records from the North-Atlantic Realm & 2. Internal and Forced Oscillations as Possible Causes; Solar Forcing of Climate Change in Recent Millennia; Times of Quiet, Times of Agitation: Sverdrup's Conjecture and the Bermuda Coral Record; A Case for Climate Cycles: Orbit, Sun and Moon; Tracing Climate Variability: The Search for Climate Dynamics on Decadal to Millennial Time Scales; - Holocene Variability: - Holocene Climate and Past Volcanism: Greenland - Northern Europe; Holocene Climate Evolution of the North Atlantic Ocean and the Nordic Seas: A Synthesis of New Results; Holocene Climate History of Northern Europe: The Evidence from Late Deposits; Climate Changes During the Holocene Recorded by Lakes from Europe; The Post-Glacial Evolution of the Baltic Sea; Holocene Climatic History of Northern Europe as Recorded by Vegetation Changes: Possible Influences Upon Human Activity; Late Glacial and Holocene Glacier Fluctuations and Climatic Variations in Southern Norway; Holocene Paleoenvironmental Changes in North-West Europe: Climatic Implications and the Human Dimension; - Climate History and Human Activity: - Landscape Development and Occupation History along the Southern North Sea Coast; Climatic Change in Northern Europe over the Last 2000 Years and its Possible Influence on Human Activity; Human Stature and Climate: The Impact of Past Climate on Living Standards; Malaria around the North Sea: A Survey; Patterns of Climate in Central Europe Since Viking Times; On the Holocene Water Balance in Central Europe and Several Historical Consequences; "Narrowest-Ring" Events in the Irish Oak Chronology: Uncertainties in Reconstructing Cause and Effect in Prehistory; - Coastal Zone and Human Activity: - The Pleistocene and Holocene Development of the Southeastern North Sea Basin and Adjacent Coastal Areas; Effects of Climate and Human Interventions on the Evolution of the Wadden Sea Depositional System (Southern North Sea); Historic Storms in the North Sea Area, an Assessment of the Storm Data, the Present Position of Research and the Prospects for Future Research; Climate Variability and Historical NW European Fisheries; Changes in Coastal Zone Ecosystems; The Impact of Harmful Algal Blooms in Natural and Human-Modified Systems of Northern Europe; Climate and Human Induced Impacts on the Coastal Zone of the Southern North Sea.