The oceans and rapid climate change past, present, and future /
Explores the role of the ocean in fast climate changes in the past and conceivable future. The first half of the 16 papers present data interpretation, hypotheses based on data analyses, and ideas that shed new light on past climates and their evolution. The remaining papers describe climate system...
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Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Geophysical monograph ;
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1029/GM126 |
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Explores the role of the ocean in fast climate changes in the past and conceivable future. The first half of the 16 papers present data interpretation, hypotheses based on data analyses, and ideas that shed new light on past climates and their evolution. The remaining papers describe climate system models that focus on the global ocean, starting with simpler, ocean-only models that develop into full, three-dimensional models of entire climate systems. Topics include the key climate transitions during the Quaternary period, stochastic resonance in the North Atlantic, and the relationship between glacial- to-interglacial changes of ocean circulation and eolian sediment transport. No index. c. Book News Inc. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (viii, 293 p.) : ill., maps (some col.) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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9781118668603 (electronic bk.) 111866860X (electronic bk.) |
Index Number: | QC884 |
CLC: | P532 |
Contents: | Ocean currents of change : introduction / Eric J. Barron and Dan Seidov -- Synthesis of the nature and causes of rapid climate transitions during the Quaternary / Mark Maslin, Dan Seidov, and John Lowe -- The big climate amplifier ocean circulation-sea ice-storminess-dustiness-albedo / Wallace S. Broecker -- Stochastic resonance in the North Atlantic : further insights / R.B. Alley ... [et al.] -- Late Holocene (~ cal ka) trends and century-scale variability of N. Iceland marine records : measures of surface hydrography, productivity, and land/ocean interactions / John T. Andrews ... [et al.] -- Changes of potential density gradients in the Northwestern North Atlantic during the last climatic cycle based on a multiproxy approach / Claude Hillaire-Marcel ... [et al.] -- Lower circumpolar deep water flow through the SW Pacific gateway for the last 190 ky : evidence from Antarctic diatoms / Catherine E. Stickley ... [et al.] -- Modeling abrupt climatic change during the last glaciation / Michel Crucifix, Philippe Tulkens, and André Berger -- Simulating climates of the last glacial maximum and of the Mid-Holocene : wind changes, atmosphere-ocean interactions, and tropical thermocline / Andrew B.G. Bush -- Ocean bi-polar seesaw and climate : southern versus northern meltwater impacts / Dan Seidov ... [et al.] -- Glacial-to-interglacial changes of the ocean circulation and eolian sediment transport / Bernd J. Haupt, Dan Seidov, and Eric J. Barron -- On the response of the Atlantic Ocean to climatic changes in high latitudes : sensitivity studies with a sigma coordinate ocean model / Tal Ezer -- The effects of vertical mixing on the circulation of the AABW in the Atlantic / Igor V. Kamenkovich and Paul J. Goodman -- The influence of deep ocean diffusivity on the temporal variability of the thermohaline circulation / Kotaro Sakai and W. Richard Peltier -- The climatic influence of Drake Passage / H. Bjornsson and J.R. Toggweiler -- Stability and variability of the thermohaline circulation in the past and future : a study with a coupled model of intermediate complexity / Andrey Ganopolski and Stefan Rahmstorf -- The future of the thermohaline circulation : a perspective / Thomas F. Stocker, Reto Knutti, and Gian-Kasper Plattner. |