Del 126 i serien Geophysical Monograph Series

Oceans and Rapid Climate Change

Past, Present, and Future

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

AvDan Seidov,Dan Seidov,Bernd J. Haupt,Mark A. Maslin

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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 126.Until a few decades ago, scientists generally believed that significant large-scale past global and regional climate changes occurred at a gradual pace within a time scale of many centuries or millennia. A secondary assumption followed: climate change was scarcely perceptible during a human lifetime. Recent paleoclimatic studies, however, have proven otherwise: that global climate can change extremely rapidly. In fact, there is good evidence that in the past at least regional mean annual temperatures changed by several degrees Celsius on a time scale of several centuries to several decades.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-01-01
Mått221 x 274 x 21 mm
Vikt962 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGeophysical Monograph Series
Antal sidor304
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9780875909851

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PrefaceDan Seidov, Bernd J. Haupt, and Mark Maslin viiOcean Currents of Change: IntroductionEric J. Barron and Dan Seidov 1Section I: Data and Climate Models: Windows to the PastSynthesis of the Nature and Causes of Rapid Climate Transitions During the QuaternaryMark Maslin, Dan Seidov, and John Lowe 9The Big Climate Amplifier Ocean Circulation-Sea Ice-Storminess-Dustiness-AlbedoWallace S. Broecker 53Stochastic Resonance in the North Atlantic: Further InsightsR. B. Alley, S. Anandakrishnan, P. Jung, and A. Clough 57Late Holocene (cal ka) Trends and Century-Scale Variability of N. Iceland Marine Records: Measures of Surface Hydrography, Productivity, and Land/Ocean InteractionsJohn T. Andrews, Greta B. Kristjansdottir, Aslaug Geirsdottir, Jorunn Hardarddttir, Gudrun Helgadottir, Amy E. Sveinsbjomdottir, Anne E. Jennings, and L. Micaela Smith 69Changes of Potential Density Gradients in the Northwestern North Atlantic During the Last Climatic Cycle Based on a Multiproxy ApproachClaude Hillaire-Marcel, Anne de Vernal, Laurence Candon, Guy Bilodeau, and Joseph Stoner 83Lower Circumpolar Deep Water Flow Through the SW Pacific Gateway for the Last 190 Icy:Evidence From Antarctic DiatomsCatherine E. Stickley, Lionel Carter, I. Nick McCave, andPhil P. E. Weaver 101Modeling abrupt Climatic Change During the Last GlaciationMichel Crucifix, Philippe Tulkens, and Andre Berger 117Simulating Climates of the Last Glacial Maximum and of the Mid-Holocene: Wind Changes, Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions, and Tropical ThermoclineAndrew B. G. Bush 135Section II: Ocean and Climate Models: Bridges from Past to FutureOcean Bi-Polar Seesaw and Climate: Southern Versus Northern Meltwater ImpactsDan Seidov, Bernd J. Haupt, Eric J. Barron, and Mark Maslin 147Glacial-to-lnterglacial Changes of the Ocean Circulation and Eolian Sediment TransportBernd J. Haupt, Dan Seidov, and Eric J. Barron 169On the Response of the Atlantic Ocean to Climatic Changes in High Latitudes: Sensitivity Studies with a Sigma Coordinate Ocean ModelTal Ezer 199The Effects of Vertical Mixing on the Circulation of the AABW in the AtlanticIgor V. Kamenkovich and Paul J. Coodman 217The Influence of Deep Ocean Diffusivity on the Temporal Variability of the Thermohaline CirculationKotaro Sakai and W. Richard Peltier 227The Climatic Influence of Drake PassageH. Bjornsson and J. R. Toggweiler 243Stability and Variability of the Thermohaline Circulation in the Past and Future: A Study With a Coupled Model of Intermediate ComplexityAndrey Ganopolski and Stefan Rahmstorf 261The Future of the Thermohaline Circulation - A PerspectiveThomas E Stocker, Reto Knutti, and Gian-Kasper Plattner 277