Proceedings of the 11th Annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop
Author: Caroline M. Isaacs
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1995
Genre: Climatic changes
ISBN: 9780788124754

20 papers included: tree ring records from Tasmania; evaluation of the relative importance of temperature and precipitation to major paleoenvironmental changes; link between volcanism and climate cooling; examination of decadel to century time-scale variability in the climate system; nonlinear time series analysis; deterministic chaos offers a new paradigm for understanding irregular fluctuations; summer temperature reconstructions from tree-ring chronologies; paleoclimatic data for Mexico; South American hydrology; El Nino events; and more.

Climatic Variations and Forcing Mechanisms of the Last 2000 Years

Climatic Variations and Forcing Mechanisms of the Last 2000 Years
Author: Philip Douglas Jones
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2013-06-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3642611133

A profound knowledge of the past climate is vital for our understanding of global warming. The past 2000 years are both the period which is of most relevance to the next century and that for which there is the most evidence. High-resolution proxy records for this period are available from a variety of sources. Five sections consider dendroclimatology, ice cores, corals, historical records, lake varves, and other indicators. The final two sections cover the histories of various forcing factors and attempt to bring together records from a variety of sources and provide explanations.