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Palaeoclimatology

&i;`Admirably fills a major gap in paleoclimate reference and teaching material'&o; - Economic Geology.

Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTION TO CLIMATE MODELS; 1. Elementary Models of the Climate System; 2. General Circulation of the Atmosphere and Oceans; PART II: QUATERNARY CLIMATES; 3. Reconstructing Climate of the Last 20,000 Years; 4. Modeling the Climate of the Last 20,000 Years; 5. Historical Climate Fluctuations; 6. Temporal Trends in Pleistocene Climates; 7. Time Series Analysis of Paleoclimate Records; PART III: PRE-QUATERNARY CLIMATES; 8. Mid-Cretaceous; 9. Environmental Consequences of an Asteroid Impact; 10. The Last 100 Million Years; 11. Paleozoic and Mesozoic Climates; 12. Precambrian; PART IV: SUMMARY AND SYNTHESIS; 13. Summary and Synthesis of Past Climates; 14. Paleoclimate Perspectives on a Greenhouse Warming

Specifications

Pm Supplier	OUP /Oxford University Press Distribution
Pm Publisher	Oxford University Press
Pm Isbn 10	0195039637
Pm Isbn 13	9780195039634
Pm Publication Date	1991-12-31
Pm Width	178
Pm Height	254
Pm Author	Crowley, Thomas J, North, Gerald R
Pm Longness	0

Key Info: Illus, figs, maps
Author: Crowley, Thomas J, North, Gerald R
Page Count: 349
Publication Date: 1991-12-31