Deep-time Perspectives on Climate Change: Marrying the Signal from Computer Models and Biological Proxies - TMS002 (Micropalaeontological Society Special Publications)

M. Williams

ISBN 10: 1862392404 / ISBN 13: 9781862392403

Published by Geological Society, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Deep-time Perspectives on Climate Change: ...

Publisher: Geological Society

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

This book unites climate modelling, palaeoceanography and palaeontology to address fundamental events in the climate history of Earth over the past 600 million years. Understanding the 'tipping points that have lead to rapid changes in the Earths climate is vitally important with the realization that humans modify global climate. In an effort to better understand past and future climate change, general circulation models have become the forerunners of attempts to simulate future climate. Although extraordinarily sophisticated, they remain imperfect tools that require grounding in geological data. In this, the study of past major climate transitions like the Palaeozoic icehouse worlds and the extreme greenhouse of the Cretaceous are invaluable. Both the mechanisms that forced changes in the Earth's climate as well as the proxies that track these changes are discussed. The central message of the book is that general circulation models tested with geological data in an iterative 'ground truth' process provide the best estimates of the Earth's ancient climate.

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