Great Ocean Conveyor (eBook)

Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change

Wallace Broecker (Autor)

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2010
176 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3471-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Exploring the link between the ocean's currents and rapid climate changeWally Broecker is one of the world's leading authorities on abrupt global climate change. More than two decades ago, he discovered the link between ocean circulation and climate change, in particular how shutdowns of the Great Ocean Conveyor-the vast network of currents that circulate water, heat, and nutrients around the globe-triggered past ice ages. Today, he is among the researchers exploring how our planet's climate system can abruptly "e;flip-flop"e; from one state to another, and who are weighing the implications for the future. In The Great Ocean Conveyor, Broecker introduces readers to the science of abrupt climate change while providing a vivid, firsthand account of the field's history and development.Could global warming cause the conveyor to shut down again, prompting another flip-flop in climate? What were the repercussions of past climate shifts? How do we know such shifts occurred? Broecker shows how Earth scientists study ancient ice cores and marine sediments to probe Earth's distant past, and how they blend scientific detective work with the latest technological advances to try to predict the future. He traces how the science has evolved over the years, from the blind alleys and wrong turns to the controversies and breathtaking discoveries. Broecker describes the men and women behind the science, and reveals how his own thinking about abrupt climate change has itself flip-flopped as new evidence has emerged.Rich with personal stories and insights, The Great Ocean Conveyor opens a tantalizing window onto how Earth science is practiced.

Autor

Wally Broecker is the Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. His books include Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal about the Current Threat--and How to Counter It and Chemical Oceanography. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2010
• Zusatzinfo: 10 halftones. 40 line illus. 12 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Abrupt climate change • Antarctic • Antarctic Bottom water • Antarctic Cold Reversal • Antarctic Intermediate Water • Arabian Sea • Atlantic Ocean • Body of water • Calcite • Calcium Carbonate • Cariaco Basin • Cesare Emiliani • Climate • climate change • Climate oscillation • Climate state • climatology • Dansgaard–Oeschger event • Deep sea • Deglaciation • diagenesis • Drake Passage • Earth's energy budget • Endorheic basin • epicenter • Equatorial bulge • Firn • foraminifera • Fresh water • Geochemistry • geologist • Geophysics • George Kukla • Global temperature • global warming • great salt lake • Greenhouse Gas • Gulf of Saint Lawrence • Heinrich event • Holocene • Ice Age • ice core • ice sheet • Indian Ocean • Interglacial • Lake Agassiz • Lake Bonneville • Lake Lahontan • Last glacial period • Laurentide Ice Sheet • Little Ice Age • Mediterranean Sea • Meltwater • methane • milankovitch cycles • monsoon • North Atlantic Deep Water • norwegian sea • ocean • Oceanic Crust • Oceanography • Orca Basin • Ouimet Canyon • Pacific Ocean • Paleoclimatology • panama canal • Phosphate • Proglacial lake • Properties of Water • Radiocarbon Dating • Salinity • scripps institution of oceanography • Sea • sea ice • sea level • Sea spray • Sea Surface Temperature • seawater • Sediment • solar cycle • Southern Ocean • Stadial • Supersaturation • Surface Water • Tectonic uplift • Thermal equator • Thermocline • thermohaline circulation • Time in Antarctica • trade winds • Tropical Atlantic • Tropical rain belt • tropics • Tunguska event • Water Mass • water vapor • Weddell Sea • woods hole oceanographic institution • World ocean • Younger Dryas
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3471-6 / 1400834716
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3471-6 / 9781400834716