Grand Valley State University

Abrupt climate change, mechanisms, patterns, and impacts, Harunur Rashid, Leonid Polyak, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, editors

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

Abrupt climate change

748331803

Harunur Rashid, Leonid Polyak, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, editors

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series.Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts brings together a diverse group of paleoproxy records such as ice cores, marine sediments, terrestrial (lakes and speleothems) archives, and coupled ocean-atmosphere climate models to document recent advances in understanding the mechanisms of abrupt climate changes. Since the discovery of the Dansgaard-Oeschger events in Greenland ice cores and the subsequent discovery of their contemporary events in the marine sediments of the North Atlantic, the search for these abrupt, millennial-scale events across the globe has intensified, and as a result, the number of paleoclimatic records chronicling such events has increased. The volume highlights include discussions of records of past climate variability, meridional overturning circulation, land-ocean-atmosphere interactions, feedbacks in the climate system, and global temperature anomalies. Abrupt Climate Change will be of interest to students, researchers, academics, and policy makers who are concerned about abrupt climate change and its potential impact on society

Geophysical monograph,, 193, 0065-8448

mechanisms, patterns, and impacts

Preface / Harunur Rashid, Leonid Polyak, and Ellen Mosley-Thompson -- Abrupt climate change revisited / Harunur Rashid, Leonid Polyak, and Ellen Mosley-Thompson -- A review of abrupt climate change events in the northeast Atlantic Ocean (Iberian Margin) : latitudinal, longitudinal, and vertical gradients / Antje H.L. Voelker and Lucia de Abreu -- Laurentide ice sheet meltwater and the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last glacial cycle : a view from the Gulf of Mexico / B.P. Flower [and others] -- Modeling abrupt climate change as the interaction between sea ice extent and mean ocean temperature under orbital insolation forcing / J.A. Rial and R. Saha -- Simulated two-stage recovery of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation during the last deglaciation / Jun Cheng [and others] -- The role of Hudson Strait outlet in Younger Dryas sedimentation in the Labrador Sea / Harunur Rashid, David J.W. Piper, and Benjamin P. Flower -- Challenges in the use of cosmogenic exposure dating of moraine boulders to trace the geographic extents of abrupt climate changes : the Younger Dryas example / Patrick J. Applegate and Richard B. Alley -- Hypothesized link between glacial/interglacial atmospheric CO₂ cycles and storage/release of CO₂-rich fluids from deep-sea sediments / Lowell Stott and Axel Timmermann -- The impact of the final Lake Agassiz flood recorded in Northeast Newfoundland and Northern Scotian shelves based on century-scale palynological data / Elisabeth Levac, C.F.M. Lewis, and A.A.L. Miller -- The 1500 year quasiperiodicity during the Holocene / A. Ruzmaikin and J. Feynman -- Abrupt climate changes during the Holocene across North America from pollen and paleolimnological records / Konrad Gajewski and Andre E. Viau -- Abrupt Holocene climatic change in northwestern India : disappearance of the Sarasvati River and the end of Vedic civilization / B.S. Baliwal -- Evidence for climate teleconnections between Greenland and the Sierra Nevada of California during the Holocene, including the 8200 and 5200 climate events / Stephen F. Wathen -- Abrupt climate change : a paleoclimate perspective from the world's highest mountains / Lonnie G. Thompson