E-raamat: Synoptic Paleoclimatology: The Weather Regime Approach from the Tropics to the Poles

'Paleoclimatology is a fundamental science for bridging the temporal and spatial gaps in climate observations, a limitation particularly evident in the Southern Hemisphere. Gaining a better understanding of past climate conditions is essential for improving future projections, and doing so requires the integration of knowledge from multiple disciplines: meteorology, oceanography, climatology, paleoclimatology, geomorphology, glaciology, and climate modeling. Aimed at researchers and students interested in studying the climate of the past, present, and future, this volume offers an in-depth review of the scientific literature and presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary insights into the workings of the Earth's climate system. It is an essential resource for those seeking to understand and model the complexity of global climate with a comprehensive and inclusive view of phenomena acting at different temporal and spatial scales. The multidisciplinary approach of the topics covered in this book is completely innovative.' Barbara Stenni, Universitą Ca' Foscari Venezia 'A thorough, well-researched and referenced overview of synoptic climatology, starting with the history of climate understanding, through to contemporary global circulation and climatology, and the evidence and tools used to studying palaeoclimatology, with a view to using this to model future climatology and its impacts. A must for anyone seriously interested in understanding the drivers of our past, present and future climate.' Andrew D. Short, University of Sydney 'The central motivation of this book is to ensure that Southern Hemisphere palaeoclimate archives, ranging from geology to ice cores and coastal records, are fully incorporated into our understanding of the main modes of ocean and atmosphere-circulation and climate evolution. This is achieved through data assimilation and climate models, improving our understanding of future climate states, and underpinning assessments of their impacts. Ian Goodwin is one of very few scientists could knowledgably marshal expertise across such a wide range of disciplines. It is a must-have book for those seeking an in-depth process-based understanding of synoptic palaeoclimatology and our future climate.' Dominic Hodgson, British Antarctic Survey Ian Goodwin's 'Synoptic Paleoclimatology' is a breathtaking and fascinating read, a truly global overview that skillfully combines climatology, oceanography, glaciology and many other geoscientific disciplines in masterly ways to present a comprehensive overview of global synoptic paleoclimatology in all its facets and in the best Humboldtian sense. The specific and refreshing Southern Hemisphere perspective on global circulation, newly and knowledgeably compiled, makes the book a must-read for scientists and students from the Southern Hemisphere and for anyone with a specific research interest in the tropics and the southern latitudes. Also, readers with a specific interest in the interaction of glaciation and synoptic paleoclimatology in the Southern Hemisphere will find this volume a comprehensive and invaluable compendium of the state of the art. Christoph Schneider, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin