Climatic Changes Since 1700

by Bronnimann, Stefan

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Title Statements

Full title :Climatic Changes Since 1700 / by Stefan Brönnimann.

Summary

Earth's climate is undergoing profound changes. Understanding and assessing these changes requires insight from the past. The period since 1700 is of particular relevance because Earth's climate underwent a transition from the Little Ice Age climate to the era of anthropogenic global warming. Moreover, pronounced climatic excursions occurred on interannual and decadal time scales, and atmospheric composition changed. Recent developments in the fields of paleoclimatology and historical climatology - high-resolution climate proxies, climate model simulations, and numerical techniques such as data assimilation - allow a much more detailed analysis of climatic changes of the past centuries than possible only a decade ago. "Climatic Changes since 1700"--The title honours the 1890 book by the same title of geographer Eduard Brückner - covers data and methods used to study climate of the past centuries, summarises the mechanisms behind interannual to multidecadal climate variability and provides an overview of global climate history since 1700 based on new data sets and model simulations.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer International Publishing
Place of Publication:Cham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

Description:XV, 360 p. : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783319190419, 3319190415
oclc:on1003452945
Dewey Decimal:333.7

Introduction -- 2 The Basis: Past Climate Observations and Methods -- 2.1 Observations of Weather and Climate -- 2.2 Historical Climate Observations -- Observing System -- 2.3 Upper-Air and Satellite Observations -- 2.4 Data Dissemination in the Course of Time -- 2.5 Uncertainties in Climatic Data -- 2.6 Data Products and Dynamical-Statistical Methods -- 2.7 Climate Models -- 2.8 Palaeoclimate Information and Techniques -- 2.9 Datasets Used in This Book -- 3 The Machinery: Mechanisms Behind Climatic Changes 3.1 Basic Climate Physics: The Mean State -- 3.2 Expressions and Mechanisms of Climate Variability -- 3.3 Forced Climatic Changes -- 3.4 Coupling Between Systems and Feedback Mechanisms -- 4 Climatic Changes Since 1700 -- 4.1 Climatic Changes of the Past Centuries: An Overview -- 4.2 The Period from 1700 to 1890: The Little Ice Age -- 4.3 The Period from 1890 to 1945: Out of the Cold -- 4.4 The Period from 1945 to 1985: Delusive Stability -- 4.5 The Period Since 1985: Accelerated and Slowed Warming -- 5 Conclusions -- References.