Research Catalog

Title

The Earth's climate and variability of the sun over recent millennia : geophysical, astronomical and archaeological aspects : proceedings of a Royal Academy and Académie des sciences Discussion Meeting held on 15 and 16 February 1989 / organized and edited by J.-C. Pecker and S.K. Runcorn.

Publication

London : Royal Society, 1990.

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Additional Authors

• Pecker, Jean Claude
• Runcorn, S. K.
• Royal Society (Great Britain)
• Académie des sciences (France)

Description

ix, 692 p., [3] p. of plates : ill.; 31 cm.

Uniform Title

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and physical sciences v. 330, no. 1615.

Subject

• Climatic changes > Congresses
• Climatic changes > Effect of solar activity on > Congresses
• Paleoclimatology > Congresses
• Solar oscillations > Congresses
• Changes

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "First published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series A, volume 330 (no. 1615)"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The ¹⁴C record in bristlecone pine of the past 8000 years based on the dendrochronology of the late C.W. Ferguson / H.E. Suess and T.W. Linick -- The spectrum of radiocarbon / C.P. Sonett and S.A. Finney. Discussion / A. Berger -- Environmental information in the isotopic record in trees / S. Epstein and R.V. Krishnamurthy. Discussion / H. Oeschger, J.A. Eddy, J.-C. Pecker -- On the need for further isotopic measurements from tree rings / M.G.L. Baillie. Discussion / G.H. Schleser -- Precambrian cyclic rythmites : solar-climatic or tidal signatures? / G.E. Williams. Discussion / J.-C. Gérard -- Environmental records from polar ice cores / C. Lorius -- ¹⁰Be and [delta]²H in polar ice cores as a probe of the solar variability's influence on climate / G.M. Raisbeck [and others]. Discussion / N.O. Weiss, Jenny Allsop, G. de Q. Robin -- The past 5000 years history of solar modulation of cosmic radiation from ¹⁰Be and ¹⁴C studies / H. Oeschger and J. Beer --^
• On the presence of regular periodicities in the thermoluminescence profile of a recent sea sediment core / Giuliana Cini Castagnoli [and others] -- Astronomical determinations of solar variability / Elizabeth Ribes. Discussion / J.S. Stanford, P. Foukal -- Historical evidence concerning the sun : interpretation of sunspot records during the telescopic and pretelescopic eras / F.R. Stephenson -- Solar observations in ancient China and solar variability / Xu Zhentao -- Relevance of medieval, Egyptian and American dates to the study of climatic and radiocarbon variability / R. Berger. Discussion / J.-C. Pecker, J.M. Grove -- Evolutive spectral analysis of sunspot data over the past 300 years / A. Berger, J.L. Mélice and I. van der Mersch. Discussion / M. Beran [and others] -- Some thoughts on sun-weather relations / J.A. Eddy. Discussion / Jenny Allsop, J-C. Pecker, Sir William McCrea --^
• Holocene climatic change, ¹⁴C wiggles and variations in solar irradiance / T.M.L. Wigley and P.M. Kelly. Discussion / J.A. Eddy, A. Berger, A.C. Renfrew -- Modelling the climatic response to solar variability / J.-C. Gérard. Discussion / J.-C. Pecker -- Are there solar signals in the African monsoon and rainfall? / H. Faure and M. Leroux -- Associations between the 11-year solar cycle, the quasi-biennial oscillation and the atmosphere : a summary of recent work / Karin Labitzke and H. van Loon. Discussion / K. Shine -- Solar luminosity over timescales of days to the past few solar cycles / P. Foukal -- Time series analysis of Holocene climatic data / D.J. Thomson -- Periodicity and aperiodicity in solar magnetic activity / N.O. Weiss. Discussion / P. Foukal -- On possible origins of relatively short-term changes in the solar structure / D.O. Gough -- Variability in the solar output / I.W. Roxburgh -- Archaeological evidence and non-evidence for climatic change / P.I. Kuniholm --^
• Climate and Holocene culture change : some practical problems / A.C. Renfrew -- Human biogeography and climate change in Siberia and Arctic North America in the fourth and fifth millennia BP / W.R. Powers and R.H. Jordan -- The bearing of phyto-archaeological evidence on discussions of climatic change over recent millennia / J.-L. Vernet -- General discussion / S.K. Runcorn [and others] -- Closing remarks : astronomical / J.-C. Pecker -- Closing remarks : geophysical / S.K. Runcorn.

ISBN

0854034064 :

LCCN

gb^90016313^

OCLC

1243824631

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