The Oceans and Rapid Climate Change Past, Present, and Future

by Seidov, Dan; Haupt, Bernd J.; Maslin, Mark A.

• ISBN13: 9780875909851
• ISBN10: 087590985X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-09
• Publisher: American Geophysical Union
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Summary

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 126.

Until a few decades ago, scientists generally believed that significant large-scale past global and regional climate changes occurred at a gradual pace within a time scale of many centuries or millennia. A secondary assumption followed: climate change was scarcely perceptible during a human lifetime. Recent paleoclimatic studies, however, have proven otherwise: that global climate can change extremely rapidly. In fact, there is good evidence that in the past at least regional mean annual temperatures changed by several degrees Celsius on a time scale of several centuries to several decades.

Author Biography

Dan Seidov and Bernd J. Haupt are the authors of The Oceans and Rapid Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Dan Seidov
Bernd J. Haupt
Mark Maslin
Ocean Currents of Change: Introduction	1	(8)
Eric J. Barron
Dan Seidov
Section I: Data and Climate Models: Windows to the Past
Synthesis of the Nature and Causes of Rapid Climate Transitions During the Quaternary	9	(44)
Mark Maslin
Dan Seidov
John Lowe
The Big Climate Amplifier Ocean Circulation-Sea Ice-Storminess-Dustiness-Albedo	53	(4)
Wallace S. Broecker
Stochastic Resonance in the North Atlantic: Further Insights	57	(12)
R. B. Alley
S. Anandakrishnan
P. Jung
A. Clough
Late Holocene (∼ 5 cal ka) Trends and Century-Scale Variability of N. Iceland Marine Records: Measures of Surface Hydrography, Productivity, and Land/Ocean Interactions	69	(14)
John T. Andrews
Greta B. Kristjansdottir
Aslaug Geirsdottir
Jorunn Hardardottir
Gudrun Helgadottir
Arny E. Sveinsbjorndottir
Anne E. Jennings
L. Micaela Smith
Changes of Potential Density Gradients in the Northwestern North Atlantic During the Last Climatic Cycle Based on a Multiproxy Approach	83	(18)
Claude Hillaire-Marcel
Anne de Vernal
Laurence Candon
Guy Bilodeau
Joseph Stoner
Lower Circumpolar Deep Water Flow Through the SW Pacific Gateway for the Last 190 ky: Evidence From Antarctic Diatoms	101	(16)
Catherine E. Stickley
Lionel Carter
I. Nick McCave
Phil P. E. Weaver
Modeling abrupt Climatic Change During the Last Glaciation	117	(18)
Michel Crucifix
Philippe Tulkens
Andre Berger
Simulating Climates of the Last Glacial Maximum and of the Mid-Holocene: Wind Changes, Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions, and Tropical Thermocline	135	(12)
Andrew B. G. Bush
Section II: Ocean and Climate Models: Bridges from Past to Future
Ocean Bi-Polar Seesaw and Climate: Southern Versus Northern Meltwater Impacts	147	(22)
Dan Seidov
Bernd J. Haupt
Eric J. Barron
Mark Maslin
Glacial-to-Interglacial Changes of the Ocean Circulation and Eolian Sediment Transport	169	(30)
Bernd J. Haupt
Dan Seidov
Eric J. Barron
On the Response of the Atlantic Ocean to Climatic Changes in High Latitudes: Sensitivity Studies with a Sigma Coordinate Ocean Model	199	(18)
Tal Ezer
The Effects of Vertical Mixing on the Circulation of the AABW in the Atlantic	217	(10)
Igor V. Kamenkovich
Paul J. Goodman
The Influence of Deep Ocean Diffusivity on the Temporal Variability of the Thermohaline Circulation	227	(16)
Kotaro Sakai
W. Richard Peltier
The Climatic Influence of Drake Passage	243	(18)
H. Bjornsson
J. R. Toggweiler
Stability and Variability of the Thermohaline Circulation in the Past and Future: A Study With a Coupled Model of Intermediate Complexity	261	(16)
Andrey Ganopolski
Stefan Rahmstorf
The Future of the Thermohaline Circulation - A Perspective	277
Thomas F. Stocker
Reto Knutti
Gian-Kasper Plattner