Research Catalog

Title

Past global changes and their significance for the future / guest editors: K.D. Alverson, F. Oldfield and R.S. Bradley.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Pergamon, Elsevier Science, [2000]

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Additional Authors

• Alverson, K. D. (Keith D.)
• Oldfield, Frank
• Bradley, Raymond S., 1948-
• Alverson, Keith D.
• PAGES Open Science Meeting (1st : 1998 : University of London)

Description

479 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.); 28 cm.

Series Statement

Quaternary science reviews, 0277-3791 ; v. 19, no. 1-5

Uniform Title

Quaternary science reviews ; v. 19, no. 1-5.

Subject

• Global environmental change > Congresses
• Global temperature changes > Congresses
• Paleoclimatology > Congresses
• Global environmental change
• Global temperature changes

Note

• Papers originally presented at the first PAGES Open Science Meeting held at the University of London, April 19-23, 1998.
• "January 2000"--Cover.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The ice record of greenhouse gases / D. Raynaud ... [et al.] -- Ice core evidence for climate change in the Tropics / L.G. Thompson -- Perspectives on global change science / H. Oeschger -- New views of tropical paleoclimates from corals / M.K. Gagan ... [et al.] -- Sea-ice cover, sea-surface salinity and halo-/thermocline structure of the northwest North Atlantic / A. de Vernal and C. Hillaire-Marcel -- Annual climate variability in the Holocene / K.R. Briffa -- Palaeolimnological approaches to climate change, with special regard to the biological record / R.W. Battarbee -- Paleoclimate reconstruction along the Pole-Equator-Pole transect of the Americas (PEP 1) / V. Markgraf ... [et al.] -- Amazonian and neotropical plant communities on glacial time-scales / P.A. Colinvaux, P.E. De Oliveira and M.B. Bush.
• The history and variability of the East Asian paleomonsoon climate / Z. An -- Hydrological changes in the African tropics since the Last Glacial Maximum / F. Gasse -- The younger dryas cold interval as viewed from central Greenland / R.B. Alley -- Rapid climatic variability of the North Atlantic Ocean and global climate / E. Cortijo ... [et al.] -- The low-latitude monsoon climate during Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles and Heinrich Events / D.C. Leuschner and F. Sirocko -- Is ocean thermohaline circulation linked to abrupt stadial/interstadial transitions? / E.A. Boyle -- Influences of oceanic rheostats and amplifiers on atmospheric CO2 content during the Late Quaternary / T.F. Pedersen and P. Bertrand -- Study of abrupt climate change by a coupled ocean-atmosphere model / S. Manabe and R.J. Stouffer -- Past and future reorganizations in the climate system / T.F. Stocker.
• How well can we simulate past climates? / K.E. Kohfeld and S.P. Harrison -- Abrupt onset and termination of the African humid period / P. deMenocal ... [et al.] -- Water isotopes in precipitation / J. Jouzel ... [et al.] -- Relating paleoclimate data and past temperature gradients / D. Rind -- Past global changes and their significance for the future / R.S. Bradley -- The role of the sun in climate forcing / J. Beer, W. Mende and R. Stellmacher -- Use of paleo-records in determining variability within the volcanism-climate system / G.A. Zielinski -- Sensitivity of modern and Holocene floods to climate change / J.C. Knox -- From nature-dominated to human-dominated environmental changes / B. Messerli ... [et al.].

OCLC

• 43331241
• SCSB-13137392

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Harvard Library