Harunur Rashid - Abrupt Climate Change. Mechanisms, Patterns, and Impacts

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Geophysical Monograph Series

Published under the aegis of the AGU Books Board

Kenneth R. Minschwaner, Chair; Gray E. Bebout, Kenneth H. Brink, Jiasong Fang, Ralf R. Haese, Yonggang Liu, W. Berry Lyons, Laurent Montsi, Nancy N. Rabalais, Todd C. Rasmussen, A. Surjalal Sharma, David E. Siskind, Rigobert Tibi, and Peter E. van Keken, members.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Abrupt climate change: mechanisms, patterns, and impacts / Harunur Rashid, Leonid Polyak, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, editors.

p. cm. (Geophysical monograph, ISSN 0065-8448; 193)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-87590-484-9

1. Climate changes. I. Rashid, Harunur, 1969- II. Polyak, Leonid. III. Mosley-Thompson, Ellen

QC902.9.A27 2011

551.6dc23

2011039755

ISBN: 978-0-87590-484-9

ISSN: 0065-8448

Cover Image: (left) Plotted oxygen isotope data from the North Greenland Ice Core Project (black) and Mount Kilimanjaro (blue) and seawater oxygen isotope data (red) from the planktonic foraminifera Globigerinoides ruber (white) from the Andaman Sea of the northern Indian Ocean. (top middle) X-radiograph of centimeter thick sediment slice of Heinrich layer 2 from the northwest Labrador Sea (courtesy of H. Rashid). (top right) Photograph of ice cores collected from the Guliya ice field of China (courtesy of L. G. Thompson). (bottom) For the atmosphere, vectors depicting the winds in the lowest model layer and the sea level pressure. Ocean model surface temperatures are shown in blue to red colors; sea ice concentration is shown in white gray. This coupled model consists of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate Model for the atmospheric component, the Los Alamos National Laboratory Parallel Ocean Program for the ocean component, and the Naval Postgraduate School sea ice model (courtesy of G. Strand of NCAR). (backdrop) Sea ice in the Southern Ocean during the early autumn (courtesy of NOAA).

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