Ice Ages And Interglacials
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Author |
: Donald Rapp |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2009-08-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783540896807 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3540896805 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ice Ages and Interglacials by : Donald Rapp
This book 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 ice ages in the geological recent past (i.e. within the last three million years, with an emphasis on the last few hundred thousand years). The second chapter discusses geological evidence for ice ages – how geologists surmised their existence prior to actual subsurface data that proved the theory. The following two chapters look at ice cores (primarily from Greenland and Antarctica). Chapter 3 discusses how ice core data is processed and Chapter 4 summarizes data obtained from ice cores. Chapter 5 discusses the processing of data obtained from ocean sediments, and summarizes the results, while the following chapter discusses data from other sources, such as "Devil’s Cave." Chapter 7 summarizes the experimental results from Chapters 4, 5, and 6. It provides the foundation for comparison with theories in later chapters. In a perfect world, this data would be totally separate and disconnected from theory. Unfortunately, as the author shows, dating of much of the data was accomplished by "tuning" to the astronomical theory, which introduces circular reasoning. Chapter 8 provides a brief overview of the various theories that have been devised to "explain" the patterns of alternating ice ages and interglacials that have occurred over the past three million years. This serves as an introduction to the following three chapters which presents the astronomical theory in its various manifestations, compare the astronomical theory with data, and then compare other theories with data. Finally, Chapter 12 summarizes what we think we know about ice ages and, more importantly, what we don’t know.
Author |
: Jürgen Ehlers |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 412 |
Release |
: 2022-08-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783662645901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3662645904 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ice Age by : Jürgen Ehlers
Nothing new from the Ice Age? Far from it! Barely ten years have passed since the first edition of this book was published, but in that time researchers around the world have developed new methods and published their findings in scientific journals. Consequently, ideas about the course of the Ice Age have changed dramatically. The sequence of the individual ice advances, the direction of ice movement and the direction of meltwater drainage are only partially known, but they can be reconstructed. This book offers in-depth information about the state of the investigations. Ice ages are the periods of the earth's history in which at least one polar region is glaciated or covered by sea ice. Thus, we are currently living in an Ice Age. The present Ice Age is also the period in which humans started to intervene in the shaping of the earth. The results are obvious. Aerial and satellite images can be used to trace the melting of glaciers, but also the decay of the Arctic permafrost, and the clearing of the Brazilian rainforest. This book is a translation of the original German 2nd edition Das Eiszeitalter by Juergen Ehlers, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature, in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and promotes technologies to support the authors.
Author |
: F. Sirocko |
Publisher |
: Elsevier |
Total Pages |
: 639 |
Release |
: 2006-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780080468068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0080468063 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Climate of Past Interglacials by : F. Sirocko
Historically, climate fluctuations, such as the Little Ice Age, show that interglacial climate chage in not entirely stable, but responds to even subtle changes in radiative forcing. Through research, it has been made clear that even an abrupt change of climate within years is not just a theoretical possibility but has in fact happened in the prehistoric past. It is therefore clear that in principal it could happen again. Human civilaization has exploded under the mild and relatively stable climatic conditions that have prevailed over the last 11,000 years. This book focuses on revisiting the past and to study climate and environment in a suite of experiments where boundary conditions are similar but not identical to today so we can learn about the climate-environment system, its sensitivity, thresholds and feedback. The palaeoclimate community holds an important key to scientific information on climate change that provides a basis for appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies. The authors of this book have taken up this challenge and summarize their results in this special volume. It presents state-of-the-art science on new reconstructions from all spheres of the Earth System and on their synthesis, on methodological advances, and on the current ability of numerical models to simulate low and high frequency changes of climate, environment, and chemical cycling related to interglacials.* Summarizes important information on climate change, providing a basis for appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies for human civilization* Reports on new reconstuctions on methodological advances, numerical models simulating low and high frequence changes, and chemical cycling related to interglacials* Incorporates palaeovegetaion and numerical modeling of climate and environmental and geochemical parameters to address regional feedback to global change with successful data-models
Author |
: Julie Kerr Casper |
Publisher |
: Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816072620 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816072620 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Global Warming Cycles by : Julie Kerr Casper
Focuses on the mechanisms that caused past climate changes, putting the Earth repeatedly into and out of ice ages.
Author |
: Arthur Philemon Coleman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1926 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015011263871 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ice Ages, Recent and Ancient by : Arthur Philemon Coleman
Author |
: John Imbrie |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 228 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674440757 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674440753 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ice Ages by : John Imbrie
Scientists charged with producing a map of the earth during the last ice age ultimately confirmed the theory that the earth's irregular orbital motions account for the bizarre climatic changes which bring on ice ages. This book tells the story of those periods--what they were like, why they occurred, and when the next ice age is due.
Author |
: E.C. Pielou |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 380 |
Release |
: 2008-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226668093 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226668096 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis After the Ice Age by : E.C. Pielou
The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today.
Author |
: Jon Erickson |
Publisher |
: Tab Books |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:49015001135814 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ice Ages by : Jon Erickson
Offers a compelling chronicle of the great ice ages.
Author |
: Richard A. Muller |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2002-08-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3540437797 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783540437796 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes by : Richard A. Muller
It is not possible to understand the present or future climate unless scientists can account for the enormous and rapid cycles of glaciation that have taken place over the last million years, and which are expected to continue into the future. A great deal has happened in the theory of the ice ages over the last decade, and it is now widley accepted that ice ages are driven by changes in the Earth's orbit. The study of ice ages is very inter-disciplinary, covering geology, physics, glaciology, oceanography, atmospheric science, planetary orbit calculations astrophysics and statistics.
Author |
: Jamie Woodward |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 185 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199580699 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199580693 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ice Age by : Jamie Woodward
"In an era of warming climate, the study of the ice age past is now more important than ever. This book examines the wonders of the Quaternary ice age - to show how ice age landscapes and ecosystems were repeatedly and rapidly transformed as plants, animals, and humans reorganized their worlds." --Publisher.