Global precipitations and climate change
By: edited by Michel Desbois, Françoise Désalmand.
Contributors: Desbois, Michel, 1946-; Désalmand, Françoise, 1940-; North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division.; NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Global Precipitations and Climate Change (1993 : La Londe les Maures, France)
Series: NATO ASI series.; vol. 26
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: Precipitation (Meteorology) -- Methodology -- Congresses.; Paleoclimatology -- Congresses.; Climatic changes -- Congresses.
Description: Of the workshop and its recommendations / M. Desbois and F. Desalmand -- Natural variability of the Asian, Indian and African monsoons over the last 130 KA / N. Petit-Maire -- Fluctuations of the Indian monsoon regime during the last 170,000 years : evidence from sea surface temperature, salinity and organic carbon records / F. Rostek, G. Ruhland, F.C. Bassinot, L. Beaufort, P.J. Muller and E. Bard -- Accumulation at the surface of polar ice sheets : observation and modelling for global climate change / C. Genthon, J. Jouzel and M. Deque -- Global climate changes and humidity variations over East Europe and Asia by historical data / A.O. Selivanov -- Regional climate change scenario based on paleoclimatic data / M. Shabalova -- Precipitation changes over the Northern Hemispheric Extratropics during the last hundred years / P. Ya. Groisman and D.R. Easterling -- The recent West African rainfall variability through empirical and modelling investigations / S. Janicot.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Global Precipitations and Climate Change, held at l'Agelonde, La Londe les Maures, France, September 27-October 1, 1993"--T.p. verso.