Ebook: Long-Term Climatic Variations: Data and Modelling

Climate is the most important component of the Earth's environment and climatic fluctuations have a strong impact on water supplies, vegetation, energy use etc. Thus our understanding of the climatic system is of utmost importance. Leading experts in the field of climate modelling and paleoclimatology present the most recent methods for reconstructing past climatic variations and for modelling the climatic system and its evolution. The first of three parts is devoted to the climatic system and the physical basis for its modelling; the second summarizes the evolution of the global atmosphere, the ocean, the continents, the biosphere, and the ice sheets during recent climatic cycles; the last part focusses on the understanding of past and future climatic changes.

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Climate is the most important component of the Earth's environment and climatic fluctuations have a strong impact on water supplies, vegetation, energy use etc. Thus our understanding of the climatic system is of utmost importance. Leading experts in the field of climate modelling and paleoclimatology present the most recent methods for reconstructing past climatic variations and for modelling the climatic system and its evolution. The first of three parts is devoted to the climatic system and the physical basis for its modelling; the second summarizes the evolution of the global atmosphere, the ocean, the continents, the biosphere, and the ice sheets during recent climatic cycles; the last part focusses on the understanding of past and future climatic changes.

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Climate is the most important component of the Earth's environment and climatic fluctuations have a strong impact on water supplies, vegetation, energy use etc. Thus our understanding of the climatic system is of utmost importance. Leading experts in the field of climate modelling and paleoclimatology present the most recent methods for reconstructing past climatic variations and for modelling the climatic system and its evolution. The first of three parts is devoted to the climatic system and the physical basis for its modelling; the second summarizes the evolution of the global atmosphere, the ocean, the continents, the biosphere, and the ice sheets during recent climatic cycles; the last part focusses on the understanding of past and future climatic changes.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Modeling Long-Term Climatic Changes....Pages 3-20
Climate Models for the Study of Paleoclimates....Pages 21-41
Global Atmospheric Modelling....Pages 43-71
Modelling the Ocean Circulation....Pages 73-106
Precession, Eccentricity, Obliquity, Insolation and Paleoclimates....Pages 107-151
Biosphere Modeling for Climate Studies....Pages 153-174
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Mid-Latitude Ice Sheets through the Last Glacial Cycle : Glaciological and Geological Reconstructions....Pages 177-212
The Climatic Record from Antarctic Ice Now Extends Back to 220 kyr BP....Pages 213-237
Evidence for a Change in Atmospheric Circulation during the Younger Dryas....Pages 239-249
Temperature of the Last Interglacial based on ?18O in Mollusks....Pages 251-258
Reconstruction of Climatic Zonality in the Indian Ocean during the Neogene....Pages 259-266
Surface and Deep Water Circulation Changes during the Last Climatic Cycle....Pages 267-275
Statistical Analyses of Biospherical Variability....Pages 277-298
Lacustrine Diatoms for Reconstructing Past Hydrology and Climate....Pages 299-334
Andean Snowline Evidence for Cooler Subtropics at the Last Glacial Maximum....Pages 335-369
Effects of Short and Long Term Climatic Changes on Permafrost - Sedimentological Data....Pages 371-378
Box Jenkins Multivariate Modelling and Co-Integration: Two Statistical Methods with Potential Usefulness in Climatic Studies....Pages 379-387
Front Matter....Pages 389-399
Measuring the Gain of the Climate System’s Response to Milankovitch Forcing in the Precession and Obliquity Bands....Pages 401-401
The Last Two Glacial-Interglacial Cycles Simulated by the LLN Model....Pages 403-410
Front Matter....Pages 411-452
Pysics of the Ice Age Cycle....Pages 401-401
A Model Study of the Glacial Oceanic Circulation....Pages 453-479
OGCM-constraints to PM’s....Pages 481-489
Mid-Latitude Depressions during the Last Ice-Age....Pages 491-510
Maunder Minimum and the Little Ice Age: Impact of a Long-Term Variation of the Solar Flux on the Energy and Water Cycle....Pages 511-531
Climate Model Sensitivity, Paleoclimate and Future Climate Change....Pages 533-550
Back Matter....Pages 551-567
....Pages 569-570