Climate since A. D. 1500
- eds.
This book is an extensive reference compilation of what is known about the world's climate for the past 500 years. Fifty-four authors contributed to the text. The first section of the book has 12 papers with historical and instrumental information about climate change. The second section has 11 papers that represent results from tree-ring research for most of the Northern Hemisphere, Australia, and parts of South America. The third section has 5 papers with ice-core evidence of climate change, including information from northern Europe, northwest Russia, the Yukon in North America, and from China, Peru, and Antarctica. The final section of the book contains information about the most likely causes of climate forcing on these time scales including explosive volcanic eruptions and Southern Oscillations over the past 500 years.
- OSTI ID:
- 6452493
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: From review by Roy Jenne, in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 74, No. 5 (May 1993)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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