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
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.
Included in series
Developments in Quaternary Science
Audience:
geologists
