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Edited By
F. Sirocko, University of Mainz, Germany
M. Claussen, Potsdam-Institut fuer Klimafolgenforschung, Germany
T. Litt, Universitaet Bonn, Germany
M.F. Sanchez-Goni, University of Bordeaux, Talence, France
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Developments in Quaternary Sciences,
Description
Historically, climate fluctuations, such as the Little Ice Age, show that interglacial climate chage in not entirely stable, but responds
to even subtle changes in radiative forcing. Through research, it has been made clear that even an abrupt change of climate within years
is not just a theoretical possibility but has in fact happened in the prehistoric past. It is therefore clear that in principal it could
happen again. Human civilaization has exploded under the mild and relatively stable climatic conditions that have prevailed over the
last 11,000 years.
This book focuses on revisiting the past and to study climate and environment in a suite of experiments where boundary
conditions are similar but not identical to today so we can learn about the climate-environment system, its sensitivity, thresholds and
feedback. The palaeoclimate community holds an important key to scientific information on climate change that provides a basis for appropriate
adaptation and mitigation strategies. The authors of this book have taken up this challenge and summarize their results in this special
volume. It presents state-of-the-art science on new reconstructions from all spheres of the Earth System and on their synthesis, on methodological
advances, and on the current ability of numerical models to simulate low and high frequency changes of climate, environment, and chemical
cycling related to interglacials.
Audience
geologists
Contents
Preface (T. Kiefer, C. Kull).
Chapter 1. Forcing mechanisms (ed. M. Claussen)
Chapter 2. Methods of palaeoclimate reconstruction and dating
(ed. Frank Sirocko)
Chapter 3 Climate and vegetation in Europe during MIS5 (M.F. S nchez Goni)
Chapter 4. Climate and vegetation history
of MIS 5-15 in Europe (Ed. Thomas Litt).
Chapter 5. Modelling past interglacial climates (ed. Martin Claussen)
Chapter 6. Analysis (F.
Sirocko, M,.Claussen,
et al.)
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Hardbound, 638 pages, publication date: DEC-2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-52955-8
ISBN-10: 0-444-52955-1
Imprint: ELSEVIER
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