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Ocean impacts on Earth's climate are due to thermal, freshwater, and dynamic interactions between elements of the climate system.
The Oceans and Rapid Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future presents a unique multidisciplinary perspective on rapid past and possible future climate change. By focusing on ocean processes in conjunction with other climatic elements, the authors of this volume address fundamental unresolved issues of climatology and paleoclimatology, including factors that may influence internal long-term variability of the climate system. Discussions of paleoclimatic and paleoceanographic reconstructions parallel efforts in modeling past and future, colder and warmer, climates. A significant resource for scientists, researchers, students and others interested in paleoclimatology, paleoceanography, and the future of Earth's climate system.
List of contents
Preface
Dan Seidov, Bernd J. Haupt, and Mark Maslin vii
Ocean Currents of Change: Introduction
Eric J. Barron and Dan Seidov 1
Section I: Data and Climate Models: Windows to the Past
Synthesis of the Nature and Causes of Rapid Climate Transitions During the Quaternary
Mark Maslin, Dan Seidov, and John Lowe 9
The Big Climate Amplifier Ocean Circulation-Sea Ice-Storminess-Dustiness-Albedo
Wallace S. Broecker 53
Stochastic Resonance in the North Atlantic: Further Insights
R. B. Alley, S. Anandakrishnan, P. Jung, and A. Clough 57
Late Holocene (cal ka) Trends and Century-Scale Variability of N. Iceland Marine Records: Measures of Surface Hydrography, Productivity, and Land/Ocean Interactions
John T. Andrews, Greta B. Kristjansdottir, Aslaug Geirsdottir, Jorunn Hardarddttir, Gudrun Helgadottir, Amy E. Sveinsbjomdottir, Anne E. Jennings, and L. Micaela Smith 69
Changes of Potential Density Gradients in the Northwestern North Atlantic During the Last Climatic Cycle Based on a Multiproxy Approach
Claude Hillaire-Marcel, Anne de Vernal, Laurence Candon, Guy Bilodeau, and Joseph Stoner 83
Lower Circumpolar Deep Water Flow Through the SW Pacific Gateway for the Last 190 Icy:
Evidence From Antarctic Diatoms
Catherine E. Stickley, Lionel Carter, I. Nick McCave, andPhil P. E. Weaver 101
Modeling abrupt Climatic Change During the Last Glaciation
Michel Crucifix, Philippe Tulkens, and Andre Berger 117
Simulating Climates of the Last Glacial Maximum and of the Mid-Holocene: Wind Changes, Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions, and Tropical Thermocline
Andrew B. G. Bush 135
Section II: Ocean and Climate Models: Bridges from Past to Future
Ocean Bi-Polar Seesaw and Climate: Southern Versus Northern Meltwater Impacts
Dan Seidov, Bernd J. Haupt, Eric J. Barron, and Mark Maslin 147
Glacial-to-lnterglacial Changes of the Ocean Circulation and Eolian Sediment Transport
Bernd J. Haupt, Dan Seidov, and Eric J. Barron 169
On the Response of the Atlantic Ocean to Climatic Changes in High Latitudes: Sensitivity Studies with a Sigma Coordinate Ocean Model
Tal Ezer 199
The Effects of Vertical Mixing on the Circulation of the AABW in the Atlantic
Igor V. Kamenkovich and Paul J. Coodman 217
The Influence of Deep Ocean Diffusivity on the Temporal Variability of the Thermohaline Circulation
Kotaro Sakai and W. Richard Peltier 227
The Climatic Influence of Drake Passage
H. Bjornsson and J. R. Toggweiler 243
Stability and Variability of the Thermohaline Circulation in the Past and Future: A Study With a Coupled Model of Intermediate Complexity
Andrey Ganopolski and Stefan Rahmstorf 261
The Future of the Thermohaline Circulation - A Perspective
Thomas E Stocker, Reto Knutti, and Gian-Kasper Plattner 277
About the author
Dan Seidov and Bernd J. Haupt are the authors of The Oceans and Rapid Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future, published by Wiley.
