Climate Development and History of the North Atlantic Realm
Contributors: Gerold Wefer (Editor); Wolfgang H. Berger (Editor); Karl-Ernst Behre (Editor); Eystein Jansen (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9783540432012
Subjects: Climatology; Oceanography (seas); Science/Mathematics; Nature; Economics - General; Weather; Human Ecology; Paleoclimatology; Science; North Atlantic; Effect of human beings on; Environmental Science; Science / Meteorology; North Atlantic Region; Paleontology; Ecology; Climate; Congresses; Holocene
First sentence: The oceanographer and geologist Roger Revelle (1909-1991), director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the 1950s, coined the widely adopted phrase about the "great geophysical experiment" that humankind is now performing with the entire planet as its laboratory.