The information about weather and climate forecasting that this book provides is essential to the management of natural and societal systems. It is intended for the advanced students and researchers in climate science, polar science, meteorology, oceanography, glacial, coastal and marine geoscience, and tropical marine ecology.
Projecting regional climate change over the next century remains challenging due to the chaotic nature of weather, but it is made more reliable through reconstructions of paleoweather in relation to climate change in atmospheric and ocean circulation, winds, waves, currents and precipitation. This primer presents a cross-disciplinary treatment of large-scale and synoptic climatology to the reconstruction of past climates under the umbrella of synoptic paleoclimatology, providing the theory and application of synoptic paleoclimatology to the study and prediction of future climate evolution. Climate proxy and data-model assimilation methodologies are described in detail, focusing on coasts, the surface ocean, glaciers and ice sheets. It also presents a state-of-the-art synthesis of regional climate history across the Southern Hemisphere, including tropical coral reefs, coasts, alpine glaciers and Antarctica. This book will be invaluable to advanced students, researchers and practitioners in climatology, paleoclimatology, meteorology, coastal geoscience, glaciology, oceanography, global change and climate-risk assessment.
Recenzijos
'Paleoclimatology is a fundamental science for bridging the temporal and spatial gaps in climate observations, a limitation particularly evident in the Southern Hemisphere. Gaining a better understanding of past climate conditions is essential for improving future projections, and doing so requires the integration of knowledge from multiple disciplines: meteorology, oceanography, climatology, paleoclimatology, geomorphology, glaciology, and climate modeling. Aimed at researchers and students interested in studying the climate of the past, present, and future, this volume offers an in-depth review of the scientific literature and presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary insights into the workings of the Earth's climate system. It is an essential resource for those seeking to understand and model the complexity of global climate with a comprehensive and inclusive view of phenomena acting at different temporal and spatial scales. The multidisciplinary approach of the topics covered in this book is completely innovative.' Barbara Stenni, Universitą Ca' Foscari Venezia 'A thorough, well-researched and referenced overview of synoptic climatology, starting with the history of climate understanding, through to contemporary global circulation and climatology, and the evidence and tools used to studying palaeoclimatology, with a view to using this to model future climatology and its impacts. A must for anyone seriously interested in understanding the drivers of our past, present and future climate.' Andrew D. Short, University of Sydney
Daugiau informacijos
By interpreting the natural climate archive, this book reconstructs past weather and projects future regional weather and climate patterns.
Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. AtmosphereOcean Circulation and
Synoptic Paleoclimatology;
1. A Synoptic View of Paleoclimate;
2.
AtmosphereOcean Circulation, Heat and Moisture Budgets; Part II. Synoptic
Circulation and Weather Regimes;
3. Large-Scale to Synoptic Circulation of
the Southern Hemisphere;
4. Regional Ocean Wind, Wave, and Sea-Level Climate
of the Southern Hemisphere;
5. Regional Climate and Weather Regimes; Part
III. Synoptic Paleoclimate from the Natural Archive Environmental Impact to
PaleoWeather Regimes;
6. The Coastal Geomorphic Archive of Ocean Wave Climate
and Paleoweather;
7. The Tropical Archive of Marine Paleoweather, Climate,
and Sea Level;
8. The Tropical to Subantarctic Glacial Archive and Response
to Weather and Climate;
9. Tropical to Subantarctic Regional GlacierWeather
Regime Relationships and Glacial History;
10. The Ice Core Archive Part 1:
Hydroclimate, Stable Isotopes and Weather Regimes;
11. The Ice Core Archive
Part 2: Aerosol Tracers to Air Mass Trajectories and Weather Regimes; Part
IV. Synoptic Paleoclimate Reconstruction, DataModel Assimilation, and Causal
Networks;
12. Paleoclimate Reconstruction Part 1: DataModel Assimilation
Approaches;
13. Paleoclimate Reconstruction Part 2: Advances in Defining
Large-Scale Circulation Evolution; References; Index
Ian D. Goodwin is a principal scientist at ClimaLab in Australia; Hon. Associate Professor of Marine Climate, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia; and Hon. Associate Professor at the Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia. Dr Goodwin is a specialist in marine and synoptic climatology, paleoclimatology, glaciology, and coastal-marine geoscience. He has been at the forefront of the development of weather and climate regime reconstruction in paleoclimatology using the natural archive including ice cores, glaciers, corals, and coasts. Atmospheric circulation, wind and wave climate, extreme storms, and sea-level studies are central to his research. After a four-decade career, the synoptic paleoclimate approach underpins his research and consulting work in seasonal climate forecasting, climate-change impact assessment, marine weather forecasting, coastal and natural disaster risk assessment, metocean studies, and weather event reconstruction.
