Outline of Contents Section A: Global contexts.
1. Introduction -
Sarah Metcalfe and David Nash.
2. Contemporary climatology of the Tropics -
Stefan Hastenrath. Section B: Regional climatic changes.
3. Tropical oceans
-Jan-Berend Stuut and Stefan Mulitza.
4. Africa - David Nash and Michael
Meadows.
5. Americas and Caribbean - Sarah Metcalfe and Mark Bush
6. China
and Southeast Asia - Dan Penny.
7. India, the Middle East and Arabia - Ashok
Singhvi and Ken Glennie.
8. Australasia and the Pacific Islands - Peter
Kershaw. Section C: Global syntheses.
9. Modelling of Tropical environments
during the Quaternary - author to be confirmed.
10. Quaternary environmental
changes in the Tropics: a global synthesis - Sarah Metcalfe and David Nash
