Climate [electronic resource] . Volume 2, Climatic history and the future : present, past and future / H.H. Lamb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamb, H. H.

Series:

Routledge Revivals: A History of Climate Changes

Routledge Revivals. A history of climate changes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleoclimatology.

Climatic changes.

Weather forecasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (879 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 1977, the second volume of Climate: Present, Past and Future covers parts 3 and 4 of Professor Hubert Lamb's seminal and pioneering study of climatology. Part 3 provides a survey of evidence of types of climates over the last million years, and of methods of dating that evidence. Through the earlier stages of the Earth's development the book traces what is known of the various geographies presented by the drifting continents and indicates what can be learnt about climatic regimes and the causes of climatic change. From the last ice age to the present our knowledge of the succession of climates is summarized, indicating prevailing temperatures, rainfalls, wind and ocean current patterns where possible. Part 4 considers events during the fifteen years prior to the book's initial publication, leading on to the problems of estimating the most probable future course of climatic development, and the influence of Man's activities on climate. Alongside the reissue of volume 1, this Routledge Revival will be essential reading for anyone interested in both the causes and workings of climate and in the history of climatology itself.

Contents:

""Cover ""; ""Climate: Present, Past and Future""; ""Title Page ""; ""Copyright Page ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Tables""; ""Figures""; ""Plates""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction to Parts III and IV""; ""12 Man's awareness of climatic changes""; ""Part III Climatic history""; ""13 Evidence of past weather and climate""; ""13.1 Evidence from meteorology and parameteorological phenomena""; ""13.2 Dating methods""; ""13.3 Field evidence of past climates interpreted by physical science""; ""13.4 Field evidence of past climates derived from the biological sciences""

""13.5 Evidence from human history and archaeology""""14 Climate and the long history of the Earth""; ""15 The Quaternary ice ages and interglacial periods""; ""16 Postglacial times""; ""17 Climate in historical times""; ""18 Climate since instrument records began""; ""Appendix to Part III""; ""V Supplementary tables and figures""; ""Part IV The future""; ""19 Man-made climatic changes""; ""20 Approaches to the problem of forecasting""; ""Appendix to Part IV""; ""VI Scientifically based climate forecasts known to have been issued""; ""References""; ""Subject index""; ""Geographical index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-203-80430-9

1-136-63968-3

1-136-63969-1

OCLC:

855502146