Climate since AD 1500 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bradley, Raymond S.; Jones, Philip D.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Climate Since AD 1500" presents a new perspective on the "Little Ice Age" and on the climate of the twentieth century. The editors have gathered together over fifty contributors from all over the world to provide as wide a geographical dimension as possible. Leading scientists in their fields, they present climatic and meteorological records of climatic variations available for the last 500 years, including research from several areas not previously recorded in English. These records include historical documents, long instrumental records, tree rings and ice core records, and records based on worldwide current research. An introductory chapter provides an explanation of the methods throughout and the book concludes with a summary of data from all the various records.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 724
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134810352
• Artikelnr.: 42683646

Autorenporträt

Raymond S. Bradley is Professor and Head of the Department of Geology and Geography at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Philip D. Jones is Reader at the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Climate since A.D. 1500: Introduction SECTION A: DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE 2
Hudson's Bay Company ships' log-books as sources of sea ice data, 1751-1870
3 Historical and instrumental evidence of climate: western Hudson Bay,
Canada, 1714-1850 4 Historical climate records from the northeastern United
States, 1640 to 1900 5 Documentary evidence for changes in the climate of
Iceland, A.D. 1500 to 1800 6 Monthly temperature and precipitation in
central Europe from 1525-1979: quantifying documentary evidence on weather
and its effects 7 Reconstructing the climate of northern Italy from archive
sources 8 Three historical data series on floods and anomalous climatic
events in Italy 9 Documentary evidence from the U.S.S.R. 10 Reconstruction
of the 18th century summer precipitation of Nanjing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou,
China, based on the Clear and Rain Records 11 Beijing summer temperatures
since 1724 12 Reconstruction of rainfall variation of the Baiu in
historical times 13 Climatic variations in the longest instrumental records
SECTION B: DENDROCLIMATIC EVIDENCE 14 Mapping climate using tree-rings from
western North America 15 Dendroclimatic evidence from northern North
America 16 Dendroclimatic evidence from the Great Plains of the United
States 17 Dendroclimatic evidence from eastern North America 18
Dendroclimatic evidence from southwestern Europe and northwestern Africa 19
Recent dendroclimatic evidence of northern and central European summer
temperatures 20 Dendroclimatic evidence from the northern Soviet Union 21
Dendroclimatic evidence from the western Himalaya 22 Dendroclimatic studies
in China 23 South American dendroclimatological records 24 Dendroclimatic
evidence from Australasia SECTION C: ICE CORE EVIDENCE 25 Ice core climate
signals from Mount Logan, Yukon A.D. 1700-1987 26 The Arctic from Svalbard
to Severnaya Zemlya: climatic reconstructions from ice cores 27 Ice core
evidence from Peru and China 28 Ice core evidence from the Antarctic
Peninsula region 29 Paleoenvironmental conditions in Antarctica since A.D.
1500: ice core evidence 31 Records of explosive volcanic eruptions over the
last 500 years 32 The historical record of EI Nino events SECTION E:
SUMMARY33 Climatic variations over the last 500 years 34 Recent
developments in studies of climate since A.D. 1500