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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807340503321

Autore

Lamb H. H

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2013

ISBN

0-203-80430-9

1-136-63968-3

1-136-63969-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (879 p.)

Collana

Routledge Revivals. A history of climate changes

Disciplina

551.6

Soggetti

Paleoclimatology

Climatic changes

Weather forecasting

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""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""