Bender Paleoclimate

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4637-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 10, 168 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Primers in Climate

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Bender, Michael L.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläontologie, Taphonomie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Boxes vi

Preface vii

Acknowledgments xiii

1 Earth's Climate System 1

2 The Faint Young Sun 24

3 Precambrian Glaciations 38

4 Regulation of the Earth System and Global Temperature 54

5 The Late Paleozoic Ice Ages 73

6 Equable Climates of the Mesozoic and Paleogene 97

7 The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum 125

8 The Long Cooling of the Cenozoic 144

9 The Origin of Northern Hemisphere Glaciation and the Pleistocene Ice Ages 172

10 Rapid Climate Change during the Last Glacial Period 235

11 The Holocene 264

12 Anthropogenic Global Warming in the Context of Paleoclimate 287

Glossary 295

Index 303

Über Autor(innen)

Michael L. Bender is professor of geosciences and atmospheric/ocean sciences at Princeton University, a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He has taught paleoclimate at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and published widely on the topic in Science, Nature, and other journals.