Format:
Online-Ressource (XX, 410 p. 188 illus., 26 illus. in color, digital)
Edition:
2nd ed. 2012
ISBN:
9783642300295
Series Statement:
Springer Praxis Books
Content:
The second edition of this book has been completely updated. It studies the history and gives an analysis of extreme climate change on Earth. In order to provide a long-term perspective, the first chapter briefly reviews some of the wild gyrations that occurred in the Earth's climate hundreds of millions of years ago: snowball Earth and hothouse Earth. Coming closer to modern times, the effects of continental drift, particularly the closing of the Isthmus of Panama are believed to have contributed to the advent of ice ages in the past three million years. This first chapter sets the stage for a discussion of ices ages in the geological recent past (i.e. within the last three million years, with an emphasis on the last few hundred thousand years).
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Description based upon print version of record
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Ice Ages and Interglacials; Contents; Preface; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations and acronyms; 1 Life and climate in an ice age; 1.1 CONTINENTAL CLIMATES DURING THE ICE AGE; 1.2 THE GLACIAL WORLD-ACCORDING TO WALLY BROECKER; 1.3 ICE AGE FORESTS; 1.4 THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM (LGM); 2 Variability of the Earth's climate; 2.1 FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE GLOBAL CLIMATE; 2.2 STABLE EXTREMES OF THE EARTH'S CLIMATE; 2.3 THE RELATION BETWEEN ANCIENT CLIMATES AND CO2 CONCENTRATION; 2.3.1 Background; 2.3.2 Introduction; 2.3.3 The transition from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) to the pre-industrial era
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2.3.4 The Early Pliocene: 3 to 5 million years ago2.3.5 The past 20 million years or so; 2.3.6 Initiation of Antarctic glaciation 34-33 million years ago; 2.3.7 Peak warming around 40 million years ago; 2.3.8 60 to 40 million years ago; 2.3.9 100 to 300 million years ago; 2.3.10 Estimates of climate sensitivity based on CO2 and climate in the Phanerozoic; 2.3.10.1 Introduction; 2.3.10.2 Climate during the Phanerozoic; 2.3.10.3 CO2 variability during the Phanerozoic; 2.3.10.4 Comparison of Phanerozoic climate with CO2 concentrations
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2.3.10.5 Climate sensitivity assuming ''The Force'' is with CO22.3.10.6 Correlation with galactic cosmic rays; 2.3.10.7 Oxygen in the Phanerozoic atmosphere; 2.3.10.8 Phanerozoic summary; 2.3.10.9 Concluding remarks; 2.4 CONTINENTAL DRIFT AND CONTINENTAL GEOMETRY AS A FACTOR IN PALEOCLIMATE CHANGE; 2.4.1 Effects of continental geometry; 2.4.2 Evolution of glaciation near the South Pole ~34 MYBP; 2.4.3 Effect of the Isthmus of Panama on NH glaciation in the past 2,700,000 years; 2.5 ICE AGES IN THE RECENT GEOLOGICAL PAST; 2.6 GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF ICE AGES; 3 Ice core methodology
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3.1 HISTORY OF ICE CORE RESEARCH3.2 DATING ICE CORE DATA; 3.2.1 Introduction; 3.2.2 Age markers; 3.2.3 Counting layers visually; 3.2.4 Layers determined by measurement; 3.2.5 Ice flow modeling; 3.2.6 Other dating methods; pH balances; Radioactive dating of gaseous inclusions; Dating based on the oxygen/nitrogen ratio; 3.2.7 Synchronizing the dating of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica; 3.2.8 GISP2 experience; 3.2.9 Tuning; 3.2.10 Flimsy logic; 3.3 PROCESSING ICE CORE DATA; 3.3.1 Temperature estimates from ice cores
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3.3.1.1 Correlation of δ18O with temperature based on recent surface data3.3.1.2 Temperature estimates from borehole models; Use of climate models; Accumulation change; 3.3.2 Climate variations; 3.3.3 Trapped gases; 4 Ice core data; 4.1 GREENLAND ICE CORE HISTORICAL TEMPERATURES; 4.2 ANTARCTICA ICE CORE HISTORICAL TEMPERATURES; 4.2.1 Vostok and EPICA data; 4.2.2 Homogeneity of Antarctic ice cores; 4.3 NORTH-SOUTH SYNCHRONY; 4.3.1 Direct comparison of Greenland and Antarctica ice core records; 4.3.2 Interpretation in terms of ocean circulation; 4.3.3 Seasonal variability of precipitation
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4.3.4 Worldwide effects of changes originating in the NH
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783642300288
Additional Edition:
Buchausg. u.d.T. Rapp, Donald, 1934 - Ice ages and interglacials Berlin : Springer, 2012 ISBN 9783642300288
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
Keywords:
Klimaänderung
;
Eiszeit
;
Interglazial
;
Klimaänderung
;
Eiszeit
;
Interglazial
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-30029-5
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Author information:
Rapp, Donald 1934-
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