Abrupt Climatic Change: Evidence and Implications

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Abrupt Climatic Change — An Introduction....Pages 3-22
Air-Sea Interaction Processes as Models for Abrupt Climatic Changes....Pages 23-30
How to Recognize an Abrupt Climatic Change?....Pages 31-45
The Rapidity of CO 2 -Induced Climatic Change: Observations, Model Results and Palaeoclimatic Implications....Pages 47-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
The Explosive Volcanic Eruption Record in Northern Hemisphere Temperature Records....Pages 59-60
Decadal-Scale Patterns of Climatic Change Over Eastern North America Inferred from Tree Rings....Pages 61-66
Factors Controlling Free Air and Ocean Temperature of the Last 30 Years and Extrapolation to the Past....Pages 67-87
Summer Temperature Changes from Tree Rings in the Mediterranean Area During the Last 800 Years....Pages 89-97
Evidence of Abrupt Climatic Change During the Last 1,500 Years Recorded in Ice Cores from the Tropical Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peru....Pages 99-110
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
The Late-Quaternary Climate of the Western Amazon Basin....Pages 113-122
Late Holocene Morphological Changes in a Jamaican Land Snail: Evidence for Changes in Rainfall....Pages 123-126
Indications for Abrupt Holocene Climatic Change: Late Holocene Oxygen Isotope Stratigraphy of the Great Salt Lake, Utah....Pages 127-136
Pollen Time Series and Holocene Climate Variability of the Midwest United States....Pages 137-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Fossil Beetle Assemblages as Evidence for Sudden and Intense Climatic Changes in the British Isles during the Last 45,000 Years....Pages 147-150
On the Duration of the Interglacial to Glacial Transition at the End of the Eemian Interglacial (Deep Sea Stage 5 E): Botanical and Sedimentological Evidence....Pages 151-162
The Alleröd/Younger Dryas Boundary....Pages 163-171
Movement of the Desert Boundary in the Levant from Latest Pleistocene to Early Holocene....Pages 173-183
Younger Dryas in North America — Modeling, Data Analysis, and Re-Evaluation....Pages 185-193
The Younger Dryas in Southwestern Europe: An Abrupt Climatic Change as Evidenced from Pollen Records....Pages 195-208
Aridification and Abrupt Climatic Events on the Saharan Northern and Southern Margins, 20,000 Y Bp to Present....Pages 209-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Ice Core Evidence of Abrupt Climatic Changes....Pages 223-233
Abrupt Climatic Changes: The Antarctic Ice Record during the Late Pleistocene....Pages 235-245
Environmental Changes during Last Deglaciation Inferred from Chemical Analysis of the Dome C Ice Core....Pages 247-259
Front Matter....Pages 261-261
Bioturbation EffectS on Abrupt Climatic Changes Recorded in Deep Sea Sediments. Correlation between δ 18 O Profiles and Accelerator 14 C Dating....Pages 263-278
Glacial-Holocene Transition: Climate Pulsations and Sporadic Shutdown of Nadw Production....Pages 279-297
Rapid Changes in the Inflow of Atlantic Water Into the Norwegian Sea at the End of the Last Glaciation....Pages 299-310
Paleoproductivity of Oceanic Upwelling and the Effect on Atmospheric C0 2 and Climatic Change during Deglaciation Times....Pages 311-337
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
Modeling Future Climate Change Affecting Nuclear Waste Disposal: an Outline....Pages 341-356
Detection of Abrupt Changes in Deep-Sea Sediment Cores: The Forward Problem....Pages 357-363
Abrupt Terminations of Late Pleistocene Ice Ages: A Simple Milankovitch Explanation....Pages 365-367
Simulation of Paleoclimatic Tracers Using Atmospheric General Circulation Models....Pages 369-381
Climate Sensitivity and Past Climates: Evidence from Numerical Studies....Pages 383-397
A Climate Model Intercomparison for the Younger Dryas and its Implications for Paleoclimatic Data Collection....Pages 399-417
Back Matter....Pages 419-425