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The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change
Wallace Broecker
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Description for The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change
Hardback. What were the repercussions of past climate shifts? How do we know such shifts occurred? This book shows how Earth scientists study ancient ice cores and marine sediments to probe Earth's distant past, and how they blend scientific detective work with the technological advances to try to predict the future. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 halftones. 40 line illus. 12 maps. BIC Classification: RBGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 388.
Wally Broecker is one of the world's leading authorities on abrupt global climate change. More than two decades ago, he discovered the link between ocean circulation and climate change, in particular how shutdowns of the Great Ocean Conveyor--the vast network of currents that circulate water, heat, and nutrients around the globe--triggered past ice ages. Today, he is among the researchers exploring how our planet's climate system can abruptly "flip-flop" from one state to another, and who are weighing the implications for the future. In The Great Ocean Conveyor, Broecker introduces readers to the science of abrupt climate change while providing ... Read more
Wally Broecker is one of the world's leading authorities on abrupt global climate change. More than two decades ago, he discovered the link between ocean circulation and climate change, in particular how shutdowns of the Great Ocean Conveyor--the vast network of currents that circulate water, heat, and nutrients around the globe--triggered past ice ages. Today, he is among the researchers exploring how our planet's climate system can abruptly "flip-flop" from one state to another, and who are weighing the implications for the future. In The Great Ocean Conveyor, Broecker introduces readers to the science of abrupt climate change while providing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
388g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691143545
SKU
V9780691143545
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About Wallace Broecker
Wally Broecker is the Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. His books include "Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal about the Current Threat--and How to Counter It" and "Chemical Oceanography". He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Reviews for The Great Ocean Conveyor: Discovering the Trigger for Abrupt Climate Change
"Wally Broecker is one of the great pioneers of paleoclimatology, the study of past climate changes in Earth's history. He introduced the term global warming and, in the 1980s, proposed the global ocean-circulating system, which he dubbed the Great Ocean Conveyor... In The Great Ocean Conveyor, Broecker offers a history of his thinking on the topic. Relating his breakthroughs and ... Read more