Synoptic Paleoclimatology - Goodwin, Ian D.

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Résumé :
Projecting regional climate change over this century and the next 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 applies 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 for 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. This book 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....

Biographie:
Ian D. Goodwin is a Principal Scientist at ClimaLab Australia, Associate Professor of Marine Climate at the Macquarie University Marine Research Centre and Adjunct Associate Professor,?University of Western Australia Oceans Institute. Dr Goodwin isa 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....

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