Paleoclimatology, 1st ed. 2021 Frontiers in Earth Sciences Series
Coordonnateurs : Ramstein Gilles, Landais Amaëlle, Bouttes Nathaelle, Sepulchre Pierre, Govin Aline
The second volume, entitled ?Investigation into ancient climates,? focuses on building comprehensive models of past climate evolution. The chapters are based on understanding the processes driving the evolution of each component of the Earth system (atmosphere, ocean, ice). This volume provides both an analytical understanding of each component using a hierarchy of models (from conceptual to very sophisticated 3D general circulation models) and a synthetic approach incorporating all of these components to explore the evolution of the Earth as a global system.
As a whole this book provides the reader with a complete view of data reconstruction and modeling of the climate of the Earth from deep time to present day with even an excursion to include impacts on future climate.
Gilles Ramstein is a director of research at Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE, France). His initial degree is in physics and since 1992 he has specialized in climate modeling.
He has been responsible for many French and European research projects on the Pleistocene, Cenozoic and Precambrian eras. He has also been the advisor of many PhD students who have explored and expanded the frontiers of paleoclimate modeling.
As a climate modeler, he studies very different climate contexts from “Snowball Earth” episodes (717-635 Ma) to more recent, and occasionally future, climate situations.The main research topics he focuses on are:
· Geological time from the Precambrian to the Cenozoic:
o Investigation of relationships between tectonics, the carbon cycle and the climate with an emphasis on the impact on the climate and the atmospheric CO2 cycle of major tectonic events such as plate movements, shrinkage of epicontinental seas, mountain range uplift and the opening/closing of seaways.
o Leading international collaborations on projects on monsoon evolutions and the dispersal of human ancestors during the Neogene periods.
· From the Pleistocene to future climate: in this framework, his major interests are interactions between orbital forcing factors, CO2 and climate. More specifically, his focus is on the response of the cryosphere, an important component of the climate system during these periods, with an emphasis on the development of the Greenland ice sheet at the Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary and abrupt climate changes driven by ice sheet variations.
He has also published several books and coedited the French version of “Paleoclimatologie” (CNRS Edition) and contributed to an online masters program devoted to educating journalists on climate ch
Takes a comprehensive approach to the study of paleoclimatology, with contributions from specialists of each field
Describes the climate of the Earth from deep time to the future
Covers terrestrial data, paleoceanographic data and ice sheet records
Gathers a large variety of different proxies within one book
Uses all different techniques from geochronology and proxy data reconstruction to obtain quantitative reconstruction of climate from pole to equator
Improves our understanding of the state of the art in modelling each component of the Earth climate system
Explores a very large time span in modelling the Earth’s climate from Precambrian to future climate
Date de parution : 11-2021
Ouvrage de 478 p.
21x27.9 cm
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Ajouter au panierDate de parution : 11-2020
Ouvrage de 478 p.
21x27.9 cm
