Antarctic Climate Evolution

Herausgegeben:Florindo, Fabio; Siegert, Martin; Santis, Laura De; Naish, Tim

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Antarctic Climate Evolution, Second Edition, enhances our understanding of the history of the world's largest ice sheet, and how it responded to and influenced climate change during the Cenozoic. It includes terrestrial and marine geology, sedimentology, glacier geophysics and ship-borne geophysics, coupled with results from numerical ice sheet and climate modeling. The book's content largely mirrors the structure of the Past Antarctic Ice Sheets (PAIS) program (www.scar.org/science/pais), formed to investigate past changes in Antarctica by supporting multidisciplinary global research.

This new edition reflects recent advances and is updated with several new chapters, including those covering marine and terrestrial life changes, ice shelves, advances in numerical modeling, and increasing coverage of rates of change. The approach of the PAIS program has led to substantial improvement in our knowledge base of past Antarctic change and our understanding of the factors that have guided its evolution.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier / Elsevier Science & Technology
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: C2018-0-05144-0
• 2. Aufl.
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 36mm x 152mm x 229mm
• Gewicht: 1260g
• ISBN-13: 9780128191095
• Artikelnr.: 57792539

Autorenporträt

Fabio Florindo is the Research Director at Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy, as well as an adjunct research fellow and the CNR Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering, Italy and the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. His research interests include paleomagnetism and environmental magnetism with applications to paleoclimate, paleoceanography, geomagnetic field behavior, and tectonics. Since 2000 he has been one of the principal investigators in ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing), a multinational initiative to investigate Antarctica's role in Cenozoic-Recent global environmental change through stratigraphic drilling for Antarctic climatic, volcanic and tectonic history. In 2000, he received the National Science Foundation Antarctic Service Medal "in recognition of valuable contributions to exploration and Scientific achievement under the U.S. Antarctic Research Program". He has authored over 175 articles and book chapters.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Antarctic climate evolution - Introduction 2. Sixty years of coordination and support for Antarctic science <- the role of SCAR 3. Cenozoic history of Antarctic glaciation and climate from onshore and offshore studies 4. Water masses, circulation and change in the modern Southern Ocean 5. Advances in numerical modelling of the Antarctic ice sheet 6. The Antarctic Continent in Gondwana: a perspective from the Ross Embayment and Potential Research Targets for Future Investigations 7. The Eocene-Oligocene boundary climate transition: an Antarctic perspective 8. Antarctic ice sheet dynamics during the Late Oligocene and Early Miocene: climatic conundrums revisited 9. Antarctic environmental change and ice sheet evolution through the Miocene to Pliocene < a perspective from the Ross Sea and George V to Wilkes Land Coasts 10. Pleistocene Antarctic climate variability: ice sheet, ocean and climate interactions 11. Antarctic ice sheet changes since the Last Glacial Maximum 12. Past Antarctic ice sheet dynamics (PAIS) and implications for future sea-level change 13. The future evolution of Antarctic climate: conclusions and upcoming programmes