Format:
Online-Ressource (243 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9783709109731
Series Statement:
Proceedings in information and communications technology v. 5
Content:
Djordje Sijacki
Content:
Experts in climate and water sciences from Canada, the United States, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Serbia, and other European countries and the UNESCO gathered at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts on the occasion of the 130th birthday anniversary of the geophysicist Milutin Milankovitch. The collection of their presentations is opened by an update on the climate situation after the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Further topics include various issues of paleoclimatology, in particular as it helps reduce uncertainties from which prospects for climate change suffer; ecohydrology and climate change at the watershed scale; and regional climate models, which are discussed in terms of both their improved modeling and their use in studies of a polynya in the Antarctica and expected changes in the Mediterranean region.
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Description based upon print version of record
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Climate Change; Inferences from Paleoclimate and Regional Aspects; Logos of the Major Financial Contributorsto the Milankovitch Anniversary Symposium, 2009, Belgrade, Serbia; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Part I: Climate Change at Present; Science, Politics, and Public Perceptions of Climate Change; Introduction; The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Its 2007 Report; The International Scientific Congress in Copenhagen in March, 2009; How The Copenhagen Diagnosis Came to Be Written; Main Findings of The Copenhagen Diagnosis; COP15 in Copenhagen, December 2009
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Public Perceptions and the Politics of Climate ChangeA Scientific Response to Climate Skeptics; References; Part II: Paleoclimate; Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change; Introduction; Cenozoic Climate Change; Climate Sensitivity; Milankovitch Climate Oscillations; Fast-Feedback Climate Sensitivity; Charney Climate Sensitivity and Aerosols; Slow Climate Feedbacks; Climate Sensitivity Including Slow Feedbacks; What Is the Dangerous Level of Global Warming?; Ice Cores vs. Ocean Cores; Ice Cores; Ocean Cores; Holocene vs. Prior Interglacial Periods and the Pliocene; Sea Level
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Paleoclimate DataSea Level Change Estimates for Twenty-First Century; Ice Sheet Mass Loss; Iceberg Cooling Effect; Discussion; How Warm Were Recent Interglacial Periods and the Pliocene?; How Slow Are Slow Feedbacks?; How Much Warming Is Too Much?; References; Simulation of Glacial Cycles with an Earth System Model; Introduction; Model and Experimental Setup; Results; Temporal Dynamics; The Role of Individual Forcings and Feedbacks; Discussion and Conclusions; References; Modeling the Interglacials of the Last 1 Million Years; Introduction; Precession and Obliquity During the Interglacials
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Latitudinal and Seasonal Distribution of InsolationModeling the Response to Astronomical and GHG Forcings; Causes for the Difference Between the Post-MBE and the Pre-MBE Interglacials; Conclusion; References; Relating the Astronomical Timescale to the Loess-Paleosol Sequences in Vojvodina, Northern Serbia; Introduction; Study Sections and Methods; Results and Discussion; Chronostratigraphic Interpretation; Orbital Timescale; Spectral Analysis; Comparison with Other Global Paleoclimatic Records; References
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A Spatial View on Temperature Change and Variability During the Last Deglaciation: A Model AnalysisIntroduction; Experimental Setup; Model Description; Deglacial Forcings; Analysis Method; Results for Surface Air Temperature Evolution; Annual Mean; Seasonal Means; Impact of Interannual Variability; Discussion; References; Perspectives of Parameter and State Estimation in Paleoclimatology; Introduction; Material and Methods; Energy Balance-Climate Model; Data; Cost Function; Optimization Algorithm; Experimental Setup; Results; Discussion; References
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A Brief History of the Astronomical Theories of Paleoclimates
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Climate change Wien : Springer, 2012 ISBN 9783709109724
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3709109728
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-7091-0973-1
