Ice Ages and Interglacials Measurements, Interpretation and Models /

• Main Author: Rapp, Donald (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Climatology.; Oceanography.; Atmospheric sciences.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Climate change.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Climate Change.

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,...

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.