Climate Change: Inferences from Paleoclimate and Regional Aspects

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Science, Politics, and Public Perceptions of Climate Change....Pages 3-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change....Pages 21-47
Simulation of Glacial Cycles with an Earth System Model....Pages 49-55
Modeling the Interglacials of the Last 1 Million Years....Pages 57-64
Relating the Astronomical Timescale to the Loess–Paleosol Sequences in Vojvodina, Northern Serbia....Pages 65-78
A Spatial View on Temperature Change and Variability During the Last Deglaciation: A Model Analysis....Pages 79-91
Perspectives of Parameter and State Estimation in Paleoclimatology....Pages 93-105
A Brief History of the Astronomical Theories of Paleoclimates....Pages 107-129
Canon of Eccentricity: How Milanković Built a General Mathematical Theory of Insolation....Pages 131-139
Exaggerated Milankovitch-Like Eccentricity Cycles and Extreme Exoplanet Climate Variation....Pages 141-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Aquatic Vegetation in River Floodplains: Climate Change Effects, River Restoration and Ecohydrology Aspects....Pages 149-155
Canadian Regional Climate Model as a Tool for Assessing Hydrological Impacts of Climate Change at the Watershed Scale....Pages 157-165
Analysis of the Changes of the Streamflows in Serbia Due to Climate Changes....Pages 167-177
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Considerations of Domain Size and Large-Scale Driving for Nested Regional Climate Models: Impact on Internal Variability and Ability at Developing Small-Scale Details....Pages 181-199
Value Added in Regional Climate Modeling: Should One Aim to Improve on the Large Scales as Well?....Pages 201-214
Eta Model Simulations and AMSR Images to Study an Event of Polynya at Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica....Pages 215-225
Some Indicators of the Present and Future Climate of Serbia According to the SRES-A1B Scenario....Pages 227-239
Back Matter....Pages 241-244