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Long-Term Climatic Variations: Data and Modelling

By Sylvie Joussaume (auth.) , Jean-Claude Duplessy , Marie-Thérèse Spyridakis (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1994
ISBN
978-3-642-79068-3, 978-3-642-79066-9
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-79066-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15975371 bytes)
Series
NATO ASI Series 22
Edition
1
Pages
567\570
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
general; Geophysics/Geodesy; Simulation and ModeliGeography (general); Geoecology/Natural Processes;

Description

Climate is the most important component of the Earth's environment and climatic fluctuations have a strong impact on water supplies, vegetation, energy use etc. Thus our understanding of the climatic system is of utmost importance. Leading experts in the field of climate modelling and paleoclimatology present the most recent methods for reconstructing past climatic variations and for modelling the climatic system and its evolution. The first of three parts is devoted to the climatic system and the physical basis for its modelling; the second summarizes the evolution of the global atmosphere, the ocean, the continents, the biosphere, and the ice sheets during recent climatic cycles; the last part focusses on the understanding of past and future climatic changes.

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