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  title info:
    title: Ice Ages and Interglacials
    sub title: Measurements, Interpretation and Models
  name:
    name part: Rapp, Donald.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 263 p. online resource.
  abstract: Ice ages represent perhaps the most dramatic example of extreme climate change on the Earth. Understanding how and why ice ages occur is of great importance in our wider understanding of the global climate system and how it might change. If one examines Greenland ice data for the past 100,000 years, it becomes very clear that the relatively warm period of the past 11,000 years stand out in striking contrast to the 90,000 years of extreme cold that preceded it. We now refer to the unusually warm period that we are in at the present time as an interglacial; the long preceding period of cold is a glacial or ice age. During the last ice age, humans developed elaborate tools and homo sapiens migrated from Africa to Europe, but it wasn’t until that ice age ended 11,000 years ago that agriculture began and with it the foundation of modern civilization. It is therefore not surprising that there is enormous interest in trying to work out the mechanisms which trigger ice ages to begin, and what causes them to end. Of particular interest is the fact that ice ages appear to begin and end very abruptly on the geological timescale. Previous and existing books on ice ages are mostly short, popular and non-technical. This book will provide an independent and complete summary of the latest data, independent of theory or analysis, before exploring theories and making comparisons with that data. Professor Donald Rapp has had a long and varied scientific and engineering career, with 48 years of experience in different fields. He has published many scientific papers and five books, including Assessing Climate Change, published by Springer-Praxis in December 2007.
  table of contents: Life and climate in an ice age -- Variability of the Earth’s climate -- Ice core methodology -- Ice core data -- Ocean sediment data -- Other data sources -- Summary of climate variations -- Overview of the various models for ice ages in the recent past -- Variability of the Earth’s orbit: Astronomical theory -- Comparison of astronomical theory with data -- Future prospects.
  note: by Donald Rapp.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric sciences
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Atmospheric Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Climatology
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  classification: QC851-999
  classification: 551.5
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Springer Praxis Books
  identifier: 9783540896807
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89680-7
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204152302.0
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