| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 454 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Interhemispheric effects of interannual and decadal ENSO-like climate variations on the Americas / Michael D. Dettinger, David S. Battisti, Rene D. Garreaud, G.J. McCabe Jr. and Cecilia M. Bitz -- Interannual to multidecadal climate variability and its relationship to global sea surface temperatures / David B. Enfield and Alberto M. Mestas-Nuñez -- Polar air outbreaks in the Americas : assessments and impacts during modern and past climates / Jose A. Marengo and Jeffrey C. Rogers -- Globality and optimality in climate field reconstructions from proxy data / M.N. Evans, A. Kaplan, M.A. Cane and R. Villalba -- The effects of explosive volcanism on simple to complex societies in ancient Middle America / Payson Sheets -- Abrupt climate change and Pre-Columbian cultural collapse / Mark Brenner, David A. Hodell, Michael F. Rosenmeier, Jason H. Curtis, Michael W. Binford and Mark B. Abbott -- Human dimensions of late Pleistocene/Holocene arid events in southern South America / Lautaro Núñez, Martin Grosjean and Isabel Cartajena -- Assessing the synchroneity of glacier fluctuations in the Western cordillera of the Americas during the last millennium / B.H. Luckman and R. Villalba -- Volcanic signals in temperature reconstructions based on tree-ring records for North and South America / Jose A. Boninsegna and Malcolm K. Hughes -- Decadal-scale climatic variability along the extratropical western coast of the Americas : evidence from tree-ring records / R. Villalba, R.D. D'Arrigo, E.R. Cook, G.C. Jacoby and G. Wiles -- Glaciation during marine isotope stage 2 in the American Cordillera / Chalmers Clapperton and Geoffrey Seltzer -- Late Quaternary eolian records of the Americas and their paleoclimatic significance / Daniel R. Muhs and Marcelo Zárate -- Periods of wet climate in Cuba : evaluation of expression in karst of Sierra de San Carlos / Jesús M. Pajón, Ismael Hernández, Fernando Ortega and Jorge Macle -- Identifying paleoenvironmental change across South and North America using high-resolution seismic stratigraphy in lakes / D. Ariztegui, F.S. Anselmetti, K. Kelts, G.O. Seltzer and K. D'Agostino --Holocene climate patterns in the Americas inferred from paleolimnological records / Sherilyn C. Fritz, Sarah E. Metcalfe and Walter Dean -- Full and late glacial lake records along the PEP 1 transect : their role in developing interhemispheric paleoclimate interactions / J. Platt Bradbury, Martin Grosjean, Scott Stine and Florence Sylvestre -- Paleotemperature estimates for the lowland Americas Between 30°S and 30°N at the last glacial maximum / M.B. Bush, M. Stute, M.-P. Ledru, H. Behling, P.A. Colinvaux, P.E. De Oliveira, E.C. Grimm, H. Hooghiemstra, S. Haberle, B.W. Leyden, M.-L. Salgado-Labouriau and R. Webb -- Neotropical savanna environments in space and time : late Quaternary interhemispheric comparisons / Hermann Behling and Henry Hooghiemstra -- Holocene vegetation and climate variability in the Americas / Eric C. Grimm, Socorro Lozano-García, Hermann Behling and Vera Markgraf -- Late glacial vegetation records in the Americas and climatic implications / Marie-Pierre Ledru and Philippe Mourguiart -- The midlatitudes of North and South America during the last glacial maximum and early Holocene : similar paleoclimatic sequences despite differing large-scale controls / Cathy Whitlock, Patrick J. Bartlein, Vera Markgraf and Allan C. Ashworth -- Late glacial climate variability and general circulation model (GCM) experiments : an overview / Dorothy M. Peteet -- Pole-Equator-pole paleoclimates of the Americas integration : toward the big picture / Vera Markgraf and Geoffrey O. Seltzer |
| Summary |
This book presents a novel approach in the field of global change by presenting a comprehensive analysis of interhemispheric linkages of climate, present and past, and their effects on human societies. The ultimate goal of this interhemispheric integration is to improve our understanding of causes and mechanisms of climate change to enhance our capability in predicting future changes. Given the societal interest in global change issues this book offers a new approach for the integration of global information. It will provide a reference for professional scientists, researchers and graduate students in the fields of climatology, and the earth and environmental sciences. * Chapters analyse instrumental atmospheric and oceanic data to address such phenomena as El Nino/Southern Oscillation variability and other climate anomalies such as the Pacific and North Atlantic Oscillation and polar air outbreaks * * A new systematic methodology is presented that allows objective and verifiable reconstruction of climate fields from sparse data * * Especially valuable in the context of climate proxy data |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Paleoclimatology -- America
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Climatic changes -- America
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NATURE -- Weather.
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SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Meteorology & Climatology.
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Climatic changes
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Paleoclimatology
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Paleoklimatologie.
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Klimaatveranderingen.
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Noordelijk halfrond.
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Zuidelijk halfrond.
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America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Markgraf, Vera.
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| ISBN |
9780080525662 |
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0080525660 |
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1281025135 |
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9781281025135 |
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