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Author : Gordon de Q. Robin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521153646
This multi-author work examines the glacial geology; measurement; temperature; and the climatic record from ice cores and other topics.
Author : Gordon de Robin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:311861141
Author : Paul Andrew Mayewski,Frank White
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781611683844
An exciting account of revolutionary new discoveries for understanding the earth's climate, and their implications for future scientific research and global environmental policy.
Author : Johannes Oerlemans,C.J. van der Veen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400963252
Climate modelling is a field in rapid development, and the fltudy of cryospheric processes has become an important part of it. On smaller time scales, the effect of snow cover and sea ice on the atmospheric circulation is of concern for long-range weather forecasting. Thinking in decades or centuries, the effect of a C02 climatic warming on the present-day ice sheets, and the resulting changes in global sea level, has drawn a lot of attention. In particular, the dynamics of marine ice sheets (ice sheets on a bed that would be below sea level after removal of ice and full isostatic rebound) is a subject of continuous research. This interest stems from the fact that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a marine ice sheet which, according to some workers, may be close to a complete collapse. The Pleistocene ice ages, or glacial cycles, are best characterized by total ice volume on earth, indicating that on 4 5 large time scales (10 to 10 yr) ice sheets are a dominant component of the climate system. The enormous amount of paleoclimatic information obtained from deep-sea sediments in the last few decades has led to a complete revival of iriterest in the physical aspects of the Pleistocene climatic evolution.
Author : Andrew Fowler,Felix Ng
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030425845
Our realisation of how profoundly glaciers and ice sheets respond to climate change and impact sea level and the environment has propelled their study to the forefront of Earth system science. Aspects of this multidisciplinary endeavour now constitute major areas of research. This book is named after the international summer school held annually in the beautiful alpine village of Karthaus, Northern Italy, and consists of twenty chapters based on lectures from the school. They cover theory, methods, and observations, and introduce readers to essential glaciological topics such as ice-flow dynamics, polar meteorology, mass balance, ice-core analysis, paleoclimatology, remote sensing and geophysical methods, glacial isostatic adjustment, modern and past glacial fluctuations, and ice sheet reconstruction. The chapters were written by thirty-four contributing authors who are leading international authorities in their fields. The book can be used as a graduate-level textbook for a university course, and as a valuable reference guide for practising glaciologists and climate scientists.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate,Committee on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309102254
In response to a request from Congress, Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years assesses the state of scientific efforts to reconstruct surface temperature records for Earth during approximately the last 2,000 years and the implications of these efforts for our understanding of global climate change. Because widespread, reliable temperature records are available only for the last 150 years, scientists estimate temperatures in the more distant past by analyzing "proxy evidence," which includes tree rings, corals, ocean and lake sediments, cave deposits, ice cores, boreholes, and glaciers. Starting in the late 1990s, scientists began using sophisticated methods to combine proxy evidence from many different locations in an effort to estimate surface temperature changes during the last few hundred to few thousand years. This book is an important resource in helping to understand the intricacies of global climate change.
Author : Vivien Gornitz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1062 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402045516
One of Springer’s Major Reference Works, this book gives the reader a truly global perspective. It is the first major reference work in its field. Paleoclimate topics covered in the encyclopedia give the reader the capability to place the observations of recent global warming in the context of longer-term natural climate fluctuations. Significant elements of the encyclopedia include recent developments in paleoclimate modeling, paleo-ocean circulation, as well as the influence of geological processes and biological feedbacks on global climate change. The encyclopedia gives the reader an entry point into the literature on these and many other groundbreaking topics.
Author : Sérgio Henrique Faria,Sepp Kipfstuhl,Anja Lambrecht
Publisher : Springer
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662553066
The line-scan images collected in this book represent the most accurate optical record of Antarctic ice cores ever presented, providing an invaluable resource for glaciologists and climate modellers, as well as a fascinating compilation of ice core images for Antarctica enthusiasts. Global warming and the Earth’s past climate are the two main reasons for extracting deep ice cores from Antarctica. Indeed, dust particles, aerosols and other climatic traces deposited on the snow surface, as well as the air trapped in bubbles by compacted snow, produce chronologically ordered strata, making the ice from Antarctica the most accurate and valuable archive of the Earth’s climate over the last million years. In addition, the layered structure produced by these strata, when revealed by appropriate methods, provides indispensable information concerning the flow and mechanical stability of the Antarctic ice sheet, allowing us to assess the current and future impact of global warming on the melting of polar ice caps with much greater precision.
Author : Richard B. Alley
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400852246
In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. In The Two-Mile Time Machine, Alley tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. He explains that humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate compared to the wild fluctuations that characterized most of prehistory. He warns that our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years and tells us what we need to know in order to understand and perhaps overcome climate changes in the future. In a new preface, the author weighs in on whether our understanding of global climate change has altered in the years since the book was first published, what the latest research tells us, and what he is working on next.
Author : Robert A. Bindschadler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : UCSD:31822005664420
Proceedings of a workshop on the possibility of a rapid rise in sea level following the response of the West Antarctic ice sheet to global warming, and outline of a project to study the phenomenon, called SEARISE : Sea Level Response to Ice Sheet Evolution.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Polar Research Board,Committee to Review NASA's Polar Geophysical Data Sets
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-05-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309074018
The high latitudes of the Arctic and Antarctic, together with some mountainous areas with glaciers and long-lasting snow, are sometimes called the cryosphere-defined as that portion of the planet where water is perennially or seasonally frozen as sea ice, snow cover, permafrost, ice sheets, and glaciers. Variations in the extent and characteristics of surface ice and snow in the high latitudes are of fundamental importance to global climate because of the amount of the sun's radiation that is reflected from these often white surfaces. Thus, the cryosphere is an important frontier for scientists seeking to understand past climate events, current weather, and climate variability. Obtaining the data necessary for such research requires the capability to observe and measure a variety of characteristics and processes exhibited by major ice sheets and large-scale patterns of snow and sea ice extent, and much of these data are gathered using satellites. As part of its efforts to better support the researchers studying the cryosphere and climate, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)-using sophisticated satellite technology-measures a range of variables from atmospheric temperature, cloud properties, and aerosol concentration to ice sheet elevation, snow cover on land, and ocean salinity. These raw data are compiled and processed into products, or data sets, useful to scientists. These so-called "polar geophysical data sets" can then be studied and interpreted to answer questions related to atmosphere and climate, ice sheets, terrestrial systems, sea ice, ocean processes, and many other phenomena in the cryosphere. The goal of this report is to provide a brief review of the strategy, scope, and quality of existing polar geophysical data sets and help NASA find ways to make these products and future polar data sets more useful to researchers, especially those working on the global change questions that lie at the heart of NASA's Earth Science Enterprise.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : American Geophysical Union
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Geology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : R. C. L. Wilson,Stephen A. Drury,Jenny Louise Chapman
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0415198410
The Great Ice Age documents and explains the natural climatic and palaeoecologic changes that have occurred during the past 2.6 million years, outlining the emergence and global impact of our species during this period. Exploring a wide range of records of climate change, the authors demonstrate the interconnectivity of the components of the Earths climate system, show how the evidence for such change is obtained, and explain some of the problems in collecting and dating proxy climate data. One of the most dramatic aspects of humanity's rise is that it coincided with the beginnings of major environmental changes and a mass extinction that has the pace, and maybe magnitude, of those in the far-off past that stemmed from climate, geological and occasionally extraterrestrial events. This book reveals that anthropogenic effects on the world are not merely modern matters but date back perhaps a million years or more.
Author : Robert A. Bindschadler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Ice sheets
ISBN : UCSD:31822005692744
Author : Robert A. Bindschadler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Ice sheets
ISBN : NASA:31769000469653
