UID:
almahu_9947420901002882
Format:
1 online resource (393 p.)
ISBN:
1-281-07091-2
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9786611070915
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0-08-050483-3
Series Statement:
Volume 80 in the International geophysics series
Content:
The book discusses the ideas and creates a framework for building toward a theory of paleoclimate. Using the rich and mounting array of observational evidence of climatic changes from geology, geochemistry, and paleontology, Saltzman offers a dynamical approach to the theory of paleoclimate evolution and an expanded theory of climate.Saltzman was a distinquished authority on dynamical meteorology. This book provides a comprehensive framework based on dynamical system ideas for a theory of climate and paleoclimatic evolution which is intended for graduate students and research workers
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; List of Symbols; Part I: Foundations; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION: The Basic Challenge; 1.1 The Climate System; 1.2 Some Basic Observations; 1.3 External Forcing; 1.4 The Ice-Age Problem; CHAPTER 2. TECHNIQUES FOR CLIMATE RECONSTRUCTION; 2.1 Historical Methods; 2.2 Surficial Biogeologic Proxy Evidence; 2.3 Conventional Nonisotopic Stratigraphic Analyses of Sedimentary Rock and Ice; 2.4 Isotopic Methods; 2.5 Nonisotopic Geochemical Methods; 2.6 Dating the Proxy Evidence (Geochronometry); CHAPTER 3. A SURVEY OF GLOBAL PALEOCLIMATIC VARIATIONS
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3.1 The Phanerozoic Eon (Past 600 My)3.2 The Cenozoic Era (Past 65 My); 3.3 The Plio-Pleistocene (Past 5 My); 3.4 Variations during the Last Ice Age: IRD Events; 3.5 The Last Glacial Maximum (20 ka); 3.6 Postglacial Changes: The Past 20 ky; 3.7 The Past 100 Years; 3.8 The Generalized Spectrum of Climatic Variance; 3.9 A Qualitative Discussion of Causes; CHAPTER 4. GENERAL THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS; 4.1 The Fundamental Equations; 4.2 Time Averaging and Stochastic Forcing; 4.3 Response Times and Equilibrium; 4.4 Spatial Averaging; 4.5 Climatic-Mean Mass and Energy Balance Equations
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CHAPTER 5. SPECIAL THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR PALEOCLIMATE: Structuring a Dynamical Approach5.1 A Basic Problem: Noncalculable Levels of Energy and Mass Flow; 5.2 An Overall Strategy; 5.3 Notational Simplifications for Resolving Total Climate Variability; 5.4 A Structured Dynamical Approach; 5.5 The External Forcing Function, F; CHAPTER 6. BASIC CONCEPTS OF DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS : Prototypical Climatic Applications; 6.1 Local (or Internal) Stability; 6.2 The Generic Cubic Nonlinearity; 6.3 Structural (or External) Stability: Elements of Bifurcation Theory; 6.4 Multivariable Systems
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6.5 A Prototype Two-Variable Model6.6 The Prototype Two-Variable System as a Stochastic-Dynamical System: Effects of Random Forcing; 6.7 More Than Two-Variable Systems: Deterministic Chaos; Part II: Physics of the Separate Domains; CHAPTER 7. MODELING THE ATMOSPHERE AND SURFACE STATE AS FAST-RESPONSE COMPONENTS; 7.1 The General Circulation Model; 7.2 Lower Resolution Models: Statistical-Dynamical Models and the Energy Balance Model; 7.3 Thermodynamic Models; 7.4 The Basic Energy Balance Model; 7.5 Equilibria and Dynamical Properties of the Zero-Dimensional (Global Average) EBM
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7.6 Stochastic Resonance7.7 The One-Dimensional (Latitude-Dependent) EBM; 7.8 Transitivity Properties of the Atmospheric and Surface Climatic State: Inferences from a GCM; 7.9 Closure Relationships Based on GCM Sensitivity Experiments; 7.10 Formal Feedback Analysis of the Fast-Response Equilibrium State; 7.11 Paleoclimatic Simulations; CHAPTER 8. THE SLOW-RESPONSE ''CONTROL"" VARIABLES: An Overview; 8.1 The Ice Sheets; 8.2 Greenhouse Gases: Carbon Dioxide; 8.3 The Thermohaline Ocean State; 8.4 A Three-Dimensional Phase-Space Trajectory; CHAPTER 9. GLOBAL DYNAMICS OF THE ICE SHEETS
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9.1 Basic Equations and Boundary Conditions
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4933-0187-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-617331-1
Language:
English
