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Past Climate Variability through Europe and Africa

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Editors:
  1. Richard W. Battarbee

    1. Environmental Change Research Centre, Department of Geography, University College London, UK

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  2. Françoise Gasse

    1. University of Aix-Marseille II, France

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  3. Catherine E. Stickley

    1. Environmental Change Research Centre, Department of Geography, University College London, UK
      School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

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Part of the book series: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research (DPER, volume 6)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction

    • Richard W. Battarbee, Françoise Gasse
    Pages 1-6

  3. Archives and Proxies along the PEP III Transect

    • Frank Oldfield, Roy Thompson
    Pages 7-29

  4. Oceanic Climate Variability at Millennial Time-Scales: Models of Climate Connections

    • Laurence Vidal, Helge Arz
    Pages 31-44

  5. Between Agulhas and Benguela: responses of Southern African climates of the Late Pleistocene to Current Fluxes, Orbital Precession and the Extent of the Circum-Antarctic Vortex

    • Tim C. Partridge, Louis Scott, Ralph R. Schneider
    Pages 45-68

  6. Holocene climatic trends and rhythms in southern Africa

    • Louis Scott, Julia A. Lee-Thorp
    Pages 69-91

  7. Diatom productivity in Northern Lake Malawi during the past 25,000 years: implications for the Position of the Intertropical Convergence Zone at Millennial and Shorter Time Scales

    • Thomas C. Johnson, Erik T. Brown, James McManus
    Pages 93-116

  8. Late Quaternary climatic variability in intertropical Africa

    • Philip A. Barker, Michael R. Talbot, F. Alayne Street-Perrott, Fabienne Marret, James Scourse, Erico O. Odada
    Pages 117-138

  9. Decadal and century-scale climate variability in tropical Africa during the past 2000 years

    • Dirk Verschuren
    Pages 139-158

  10. Late Quaternary climate changes in the Horn of Africa

    • Mohammad Umer, Dagnachew Legesse, Françoise Gasse, Raymonde Bonnefille, Henry F. Lamb, Melanie J. Leng et al.
    Pages 159-180

  11. Palaeoenvironments, palaeoclimates and landscape development in Atlantic Equatorial Africa: a review of key sites covering the last 25 kyrs

    • Hilaire Elenga, Jean Maley, Annie Vincens, Isabelle Farrera
    Pages 181-198

  12. Aspects of Nigerian coastal vegetation in the Holocene: some recent insights

    • M. Adebisi Sowunmi
    Pages 199-218

  13. Palaeoenvironmental changes in the arid and sub arid belt (Sahara-Sahel-Arabian Peninsula) from 150 kyr to present

    • Philipp Hoelzmann, Françoise Gasse, Lydie M. Dupont, Ulrich Salzmann, Michael Staubwasser, Dirk C. Leuschner et al.
    Pages 219-256

  14. Historical chronology of ENSO and the Nile flood record

    • Luc Ortlieb
    Pages 257-278

  15. Groundwater as an archive of climatic and environmental change: Europe to Africa

    • W. Mike Edmunds, Abdelkader Dodo, Djaira Djoret, Cheik H. Gaye, Ibrahim B. Goni, Yves Travi et al.
    Pages 279-306

  16. Mediterranean Sea palaeohydrology and pluvial periods during the Late Quaternary

    • Nejib Kallel, Jean-Claude Duplessy, Laurent Labeyrie, Michel Fontugne, Matrine Paterne
    Pages 307-324

  17. Palaeoenvironmental changes in the Mediterranean region 250-10 kyr BP

    • Donatella Magri, Nejib Kallel, Biancamaria Narcisi
    Pages 325-341

  18. Holocene climate, environment and cultural change in the circum-Mediterranean region

    • Neil Roberts, Tony Stevenson, Basil Davis, Rachid Cheddadi, Simon Brewster, Arlene Rosen
    Pages 343-362

  19. Speleothems as palaeoclimate indicators, a case study from Soreq Cave located in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Israel

    • Miryam Bar-Matthews, Avner Ayalon
    Pages 363-391

  20. Climatic and environmental variability in the Mid-Latitude Europe sector during the last interglacial-glacial cycle

    • Jef Vandenberghe, John Lowe, Russell Coope, Thomas Litt, Ludwig Züller
    Pages 393-416
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About this book

This book provides a major synthesis of evidence for past climate variability at the regional and continental scale across Europe and Africa. It focuses on two complementary time-scales, the Holocene (approximately the last 11,500 years) and the last glacial-interglacial cycle (approximately the last 130,000 years). An overview of the climate system of the past has never been attempted before on this scale, and, as such, the volume represents a benchmark for future research.

It is written by an expert group of climate change scientists and presents an insight into past climate variability that challenges climatologists who seek to explain climate dynamics of the past and provides climate modellers with a work of reference for data-model comparison. The book is an advanced but very readable text essential for all students and scientists interested in global environmental change.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"This volume presents an impressive overview of the range of ongoing paleoclimate research along the whole Afro-European transect … . This volume represents another highlight of the international efforts on improving our understanding of global change. … Overall, the volume is very well edited, including the figures. … The editors have to be congratulated for their excellent work." (Vera Markgraf, Journal of Paleolimnology, Vol. 36, 2006)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Environmental Change Research Centre, Department of Geography, University College London, UK

    Richard W. Battarbee, Catherine E. Stickley

  • University of Aix-Marseille II, France

    Françoise Gasse

  • School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

    Catherine E. Stickley

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Past Climate Variability through Europe and Africa

  • Editors: Richard W. Battarbee, Françoise Gasse, Catherine E. Stickley

  • Series Title: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2121-3

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2120-6Published: 03 December 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6593-3Published: 28 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2121-3Published: 06 November 2007

  • Series ISSN: 1571-5299

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1672

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 638

  • Topics: Climate Change, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Paleontology, Earth Sciences, general

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