Overview

Our views and understanding of variations in climate, geomorphological processes and the interrelationships that exist between climatic changes and land surface changes, both now and in the past, developed greatly during the 1990s. This book aims to encapsulate some of these advances and focuses on the integration of research that has been conducted by geomorphologists and climatologists on linking climate and land surface changes. The book is divided into two main parts: Section A incorporates research that has concentrated on short-term variations in climate, whilst Section B looks at some of the work on long-term climate variability. The volume concludes with a summary chapter that brings together the various ideas that have been presented in this work and other recent research in this general field. The text should be of interest to upper level students of geomorphology, Quaternary studies, climatology, earth sciences, and environmental studies, and to researchers in these fields.

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Author:   S.J. McLaren ,  D.R. Kniveton
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2000 ed.
Volume:   6
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.610kg
ISBN:  

9780792366386

ISBN 10:   0792366387
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   30 November 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Short-Term Climate Variabilyty.- Dust Variability over Northern Africa and Rainfall in the Sahel.- Desiccation in the Sahel.- Hydrological Response of Desert Margins to Climatic Change: The Effect of Changing Surface Properties.- Weathering, Geomorphology and Climatic Variability in the Central Namib Desert.- Warm Season Land Surface — Climate Interactions in the United States Midwest from Mesoscale Observations.- Streamflow Changes in the Sierra Nevada, California, Simulated Using a Statistically Downscaled General Circulation Model Scenario of Climate Change.- Examining Links between Climate Change and Landslide Activity Using GCMS.- Long-Term Climate Variability.- Geologic Evidence of Rapid, Multiple, and High-Magnitude Climate Change During the Last Glacial (Wisconsinan) of North America.- Aeolian Geomorphic Response to Climate Change: An Example from the Estancia Valley, Central New Mexico, USA.- Evaporite Minerals and Organic Horizons in Sedimentary Sequences in the Libyan Fezzan: Implications for Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction.- Relict Cryogenic Mounds in the UK as Evidence of Climate Change.- Investigations into Long-Term Future Climate Changes.- Summary.- Geomorphological and Climatological Perspectives on Land Surface -Climate Change.

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