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Book North Pacific Environment and Paleoclimate from the Late Pleistocene to Present

Download or read book North Pacific Environment and Paleoclimate from the Late Pleistocene to Present written by Miriam Jones and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2020-01-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast area of the North Pacific, spanning ~55˚ longitude, represents a challenge for documenting and understanding the geologic history of ocean, atmosphere, and terrestrial environmental change. Nevertheless, its importance for many issues, including our fundamental understanding of ocean and atmospheric circulation patterns and teleconnections with natural modes of climate variability through time, has led to a steady rise in the numbers of study sites and proxy types. By bringing together a wide range of proxies and timescales that examine the impacts of paleoclimate on ecosystems, water, carbon, and humans, and interactions between marine and terrestrial processes, this Research Topic contributes to an improved understanding of the region’s significance at global, hemispheric, and regional scales.

Book Late Pleistocene Central Equatorial Pacific Temperature Drivers

Download or read book Late Pleistocene Central Equatorial Pacific Temperature Drivers written by Victoria Yuan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tropical Pacific sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are a critical component of the global climate system with oceanic and atmospheric teleconnections through meridional and latitudinal heat transport. Understanding the climate drivers and dynamics of this region enables a better understanding of global climate. Orbital scale climate drivers for eastern and western Pacific SSTs have been studied; however, SSTs and thermocline structure have not been studied in the central equatorial Pacific (CEP). Studying temperature dynamics in the CEP upper water column can help determine which mechanisms control SST and thermocline structure and test previously proposed hypotheses. Here, I present CEP SST and subsurface temperature records from the Line Islands (ML1208-17PC) that span the last 380,000 years. Using two species of foraminifera, G. ruber and G. tumida, I respectively generated Mg/Ca based SST and subsurface temperature records and compared them to published records from the equatorial Pacific. This comparison indicates an expanded west pacific warm pool (WPWP) during interglacial periods but no expansion of the eastern Pacific cold tongue during glacial periods. Based on the thermocline depth proxy, the thermocline was deeper in glacial periods and shallower in interglacial periods. Cross-spectral analysis demonstrates which climate drivers are the likely forcings for CEP SST and thermocline behavior. The CEP SSTs are distinct from those to the east or the west as they are not directly driven by CO2 or insolation at orbital frequencies; instead, the CEP SST record is linked to subsurface temperature at eccentricity and obliquity bands. However, changes in thermocline conditions at the CEP are potentially driven by CO2 and Antarctic temperature changes. This study agrees and supports previous studies that indicate deeper thermocline depths in glacials and shallower depths in interglacials.

Book Early Middle Pleistocene Transitions

Download or read book Early Middle Pleistocene Transitions written by Geological Society of London and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early-Middle Pleistocene transition (around 1.2 to 0.5 Ma) marks a profound shift in Earth's climate state. Low-amplitude 41 ka climate cycles, dominating the earlier part of the Pleistocene, gave way progressively to a 100 ka rhythm of increased amplitude that characterizes our present glacial-interglacial world. This volume assesses the biotic and physical response to this transition both on land and in the oceans: indeed it examines the very nature of Quaternary climate change. Milankovitch theory, palaeoceanography using isotopes and microfossils, marine organic geochemistry, tephrochronology, the record of loess and soil deposition, terrestrial vegetational change, and the migration and evolution of hominins as well as other large and small mammals, are all considered. These themes combine to explore the very origins of our present biota.

Book The Thermal Evolution of the Western Equatorial Pacific Warm Pool During the Pleistocene and Late Pliocene Epochs

Download or read book The Thermal Evolution of the Western Equatorial Pacific Warm Pool During the Pleistocene and Late Pliocene Epochs written by Martín Andrés Medina Elizalde and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2007 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis dissertation focused on reconstructing the temperature and hydrological evolution of the western equatorial Pacific (WEP) warm pool over the late Pliocene (2.3 to 3.1 Ma) and Pleistocene (1.3 to 0.45 Ma) Epochs using the foraminiferal Mg/Ca Paleothermometry technique and foraminiferal oxygen isotopes. Climate reconstructions are based on sediments from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Hole 806B on the Ontong Java Plateau, a site regarded to have remarkably constant sedimentation rates and very good foraminiferal preservation.

Book Polar Environments and Global Change

Download or read book Polar Environments and Global Change written by Roger G. Barry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-09 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys atmospheric, oceanic and cryospheric processes, present and past conditions, and changes in polar environments.

Book Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change

Download or read book Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change written by Mark B. Bush and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of this book is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests, to investigate past, present, and future climatic influences on the ecosystems with the highest biodiversity on the planet.Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change will be the first book to examine how tropical rain forest ecology is altered by climate change, rather than simply seeing how plant communities were altered. Shifting the emphasis onto ecological processes e.g. how diversity is structured by climate and the subsequent impact on tropical forest ecology, provides the reader with a more comprehensive coverage. A major theme of this book that emerges progressively is the interaction between humans, climate and forest ecology. While numerous books have appeared dealing with forest fragmentation and conservation, none have explicitly explored the long term occupation of tropical systems, the influence of fire and the future climatic effects of deforestation, coupled with anthropogenic emissions. Incorporating modelling of past and future systems paves the way for a discussion of conservation from a climatic perspective, rather than the usual plea to stop logging.

Book Global Climates since the Last Glacial Maximum

Download or read book Global Climates since the Last Glacial Maximum written by H. E. Wright and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the evolution of the global climate since the last period of glacial maximum approximately 18,000 years ago. Examines how changes in climate have transformed Earth's biomes in this period and how this change has influenced the evolution of life.

Book Late Pleistocene Environments of North Pacific North America

Download or read book Late Pleistocene Environments of North Pacific North America written by Calvin J. Heusser and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book International Decade of Ocean Exploration

Download or read book International Decade of Ocean Exploration written by United States. Environmental Data Service and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications of the Geological Survey

Download or read book Publications of the Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric CO2

Download or read book The Carbon Cycle and Atmospheric CO2 written by Eric T. Sundquist and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Saline to Freshwater

    Book Details:
  • Author : Scott W. Starratt
  • Publisher : Geological Society of America
  • Release : 2021-12-23
  • ISBN : 0813725364
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book From Saline to Freshwater written by Scott W. Starratt and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: