The Oceans and Rapid Climate Change
Past, Present, and Future
Geophysical Monograph Series (Series Nr. 126)
1. Edition January 2001
304 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 126.
Until a few decades ago, scientists generally believed that significant large-scale past global and regional climate changes occurred at a gradual pace within a time scale of many centuries or millennia. A secondary assumption followed: climate change was scarcely perceptible during a human lifetime. Recent paleoclimatic studies, however, have proven otherwise: that global climate can change extremely rapidly. In fact, there is good evidence that in the past at least regional mean annual temperatures changed by several degrees Celsius on a time scale of several centuries to several decades.
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
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