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Climate and Geo-Sciences

A Challenge for Science and Society in the 21st Century

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Editors:
  1. A. Berger

    1. Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaître, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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  2. S. Schneider

    1. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA

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  3. J. Cl. Duplessy

    1. Centre des Faibles Radioactivités, Laboratoire Mixte CNRS-CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

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Part of the book series: Nato Science Series C: (ASIC, volume 285)

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Table of contents (45 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Climate Record What can We Learn from Data?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Pre-Pleistocene Climates: Data and Models

      • Eric J. Barron
      Pages 3-19

    3. Archaean Atmosphere-Biosphere Interactions

      • A. Henderson-Sellers
      Pages 21-38

    4. Dating Proxy Data

      • M. Stuiver
      Pages 39-45

    5. The Spectral Characteristics of Pre-Quaternary Climatic Records, an Example of the Relationship between the Astronomical Theory and Geo-Sciences

      • A. Berger
      Pages 47-76

    6. Polar Ice Cores and Climate

      • C. J. Lorius
      Pages 77-103

    7. Intermediate and Deep Water Characteristics during the Last Glacial Maximum

      • J. C. Duplessy, L. Labeyrie, N. Kallel, A. Juillet-Leclerc
      Pages 105-120

    8. Oceanic Response to Orbital Forcing in the Late Quaternary: Observational and Experimental Strategies

      • John Imbrie, Andrew McIntyre, Alan Mix
      Pages 121-164

    9. Recent Developments in Quaternary Paleoclimatology

      • Raymond S. Bradley
      Pages 165-171

    10. Paleoclimate Data for Studies of Global Climate Change and Earth System Science

      • T. L. Holcombe
      Pages 173-177

    11. Paleoclimate Perspectives on a Greenhouse Warming

      • Thomas J. Crowley
      Pages 179-207

  3. Understanding Climate and Climatic Changes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Deceptively-Simple Models of Climatic Change

      • M. Ghil
      Pages 211-240

    3. Climate Predictability: A Dynamical View

      • C. Nicolis, C. L. Keppenne
      Pages 241-251

    4. Coupled Ocean and Sea-Ice Models: Review and Perspectives

      • J.-P. van Ypersele
      Pages 253-277

    5. Atmospheric Chemistry-Climate Interactions

      • Guy Brasseur, Michel M. Verstraete
      Pages 279-302

    6. Ice and Climate Studies

      • J. Oerlemans
      Pages 303-307

    7. Volcanoes and Climate

      • Alan Robock
      Pages 309-314

    8. Global Climatic Effects of a Nuclear War: An Interdisciplinary Problem

      • Steven J. Ghan
      Pages 315-319
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About this book

It has been widely recognized recently that in order to make scientific progress on large and important problems (eg, carbon dioxide effects on climate, viability of various sites for nuclear waste disposal etc.), it is necessary to integrate knowledge from wide ranging sets of disciplines. This is certainly true in the climate sciences, for progress in understanding the cause of the ice ages or the effects of industrial pollution on the future climate or even the likelihood of severe climatic consequences in the aftermath of nuclear war. All require state-of -the -art input from many geoscience disci­ plines climatology, oceanography, meteorology, chemistry, ecology, glaciology, geology, astronomy, space technology, computer technology, mathematics etc. Major international meetings have called for interaction of such geo-science disciplines to solve real world problems. To move beyond the rhetorical level, the NATO Special Programme on Global Transport Mechanisms in the Geo-Sciences whose activities started in 1983, deci­ ded to organise his closing symposium on such a topic which focus on the relationship between climate and geo-sciences. This symposium was held at the end of May 1988 at the Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-Ia-Neuve, Belgium. One hundred-and-thirty participants from the 16 NATO countries and a number of non-NATO countries assembled for the Symposium. Another feature was the attendance by special invitation of 16 pro­ mising young scientists who might well become leading scientists on climate and geo-sciences in their respective countries in the next century.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaître, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    A. Berger

  • National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, USA

    S. Schneider

  • Centre des Faibles Radioactivités, Laboratoire Mixte CNRS-CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    J. Cl. Duplessy

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Climate and Geo-Sciences

  • Book Subtitle: A Challenge for Science and Society in the 21st Century

  • Editors: A. Berger, S. Schneider, J. Cl. Duplessy

  • Series Title: Nato Science Series C:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2446-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1989

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0404-3Published: 31 August 1989

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0412-8Published: 31 August 1989

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-2446-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1389-2185

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 724

  • Topics: Atmospheric Sciences, Environmental Management, Hydrogeology, Ecology

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