Paleoclimatology

by Bouttes, Nathaëlle Govin, Aline Landais, Amaëlle Ramstein, Gilles Sepulchre, Pierre

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Title Statements

Full title :Paleoclimatology / Gilles Ramstein, Amaëlle Landais, Nathaelle Bouttes, Pierre Sepulchre, Aline Govin, editors.

Summary

This two-volume book provides a comprehensive, detailed understanding of paleoclimatology beginning by describing the "proxy data" from which quantitative climate parameters are reconstructed and finally by developing a comprehensive Earth system model able to simulate past climates of the Earth. It compiles contributions from specialists in each field who each have an in-depth knowledge of their particular area of expertise. The first volume is devoted to "Finding, dating and interpreting the evidence". It describes the different geo-chronological technical methods used in paleoclimatology. Different fields of geosciences such as: stratigraphy, magnetism, dendrochronology, sedimentology, are drawn from and proxy reconstructions from ice sheets, terrestrial (speleothems, lakes, and vegetation) and oceanic data, are used to reconstruct the ancient climates of the Earth. The second volume, entitled "Investigation into ancient climates," focuses on building comprehensive models of past climate evolution. The chapters are based on understanding the processes driving the evolution of each component of the Earth system (atmosphere, ocean, ice). This volume provides both an analytical understanding of each component using a hierarchy of models (from conceptual to very sophisticated 3D general circulation models) and a synthetic approach incorporating all of these components to explore the evolution of the Earth as a global system. As a whole this book provides the reader with a complete view of data reconstruction and modeling of the climate of the Earth from deep time to present day with even an excursion to include impacts on future climate

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:Cham
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

Description:2 volumes set (xxiv, 478 pages) : : illustrations (some color), maps ; : 29 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9783030249816, 3030249816
oclc:on1264682073
LC Classification:QC884

The climate system: its functioning and history -- The changing face of the Earth throughout the ages -- Introduction to geochronology -- Carbon-14 -- The 40K/40 Ar and 40Ar/39 Ar methods -- Dating of corals and other geological samples via the radioactive disequilibrium of uranium and thorium isotopes -- Magnetostratigraphy: from a million to a thousand years -- Dendrochonology -- The dating of ice-core archives -- Reconstructing the physics and circulation of the atmosphere -- Air-ice interface: polar ice -- Air-vegetation interface: pollen -- Ground-air interface: the loess sequences, markers of atmospheric circuation -- Air-ground interface: reconstruction of paleoclimates using speleothems -- Air-interface: 18O records of past meteoric water using benthic ostracods from deep lakes -- Vegetation-atmosphere interface: tree rings -- Air-vegetation interface: an example of the use of historical data on grape harvests -- Air-ground interface: sediment tracers in tropical lakes -- Air-water interface: tropical lake diatoms and isotrope hydrology modeling -- Air-ice interface: tropical glaciers -- Climate and the evolution of the ocean: the paleoceanographic data -- Climate evolutio…

Subjects

Climat -- Changements climate change Climatic changes Géographie physique Géologie Geology Paléoclimatologie Paleoclimatology Paléontologie paleontology physical geography