Past global changes and their significance for the future
By: guest editors: K.D. Alverson, F. Oldfield and R.S. Bradley
Series: Quaternary science reviews -- v. 19, no. 1-5
Publisher: Pergamon, Elsevier Science
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
Subjects: Global environmental change; Congresses; Global temperature changes; Paleoclimatology
Notes: Papers originally presented at the first PAGES Open Science Meeting held at the University of London, April 19-23, 1998.

"January 2000"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The ice record of greenhouse gases  -- D. Raynaud ... [et al.]; title: Ice core evidence for climate change in the Tropics  -- L.G. Thompson; title: Perspectives on global change science  -- H. Oeschger; title: New views of tropical paleoclimates from corals  -- M.K. Gagan ... [et al.]; title: Sea-ice cover, sea-surface salinity and halo-/thermocline structure of the northwest North Atlantic  -- A. de Vernal and C. Hillaire-Marcel; title: Annual climate variability in the Holocene  -- K.R. Briffa; title: Palaeolimnological approaches to climate change, with special regard to the biological record  -- R.W. Battarbee; title: Paleoclimate reconstruction along the Pole-Equator-Pole transect of the Americas (PEP 1)  -- V. Markgraf ... [et al.]; title: Amazonian and neotropical plant communities on glacial time-scales -- P.A. Colinvaux, P.E. De Oliveira and M.B. Bush.; title: The history and variability of the East Asian paleomonsoon climate  -- Z. An; title: Hydrological changes in the African tropics since the Last Glacial Maximum  -- F. Gasse; title: The younger dryas cold interval as viewed from central Greenland  -- R.B. Alley; title: Rapid climatic variability of the North Atlantic Ocean and global climate  -- E. Cortijo ... [et al.]; title: The low-latitude monsoon climate during Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles and Heinrich Events  -- D.C. Leuschner and F. Sirocko; title: Is ocean thermohaline circulation linked to abrupt stadial/interstadial transitions?  -- E.A. Boyle; title: Influences of oceanic rheostats and amplifiers on atmospheric CO2 content during the Late Quaternary  -- T.F. Pedersen and P. Bertrand; title: Study of abrupt climate change by a coupled ocean-atmosphere model  -- S. Manabe and R.J. Stouffer; title: Past and future reorganizations in the climate system -- T.F. Stocker.; title: How well can we simulate past climates?  -- K.E. Kohfeld and S.P. Harrison; title: Abrupt onset and termination of the African humid period  -- P. deMenocal ... [et al.]; title: Water isotopes in precipitation  -- J. Jouzel ... [et al.]; title: Relating paleoclimate data and past temperature gradients  -- D. Rind; title: Past global changes and their significance for the future  -- R.S. Bradley; title: The role of the sun in climate forcing  -- J. Beer, W. Mende and R. Stellmacher; title: Use of paleo-records in determining variability within the volcanism-climate system  -- G.A. Zielinski; title: Sensitivity of modern and Holocene floods to climate change  -- J.C. Knox; title: From nature-dominated to human-dominated environmental changes -- B. Messerli ... [et al.].