Description
Projecting regional climate change over this century and the next remains challenging due to the chaotic nature of weather, but it is made more reliable through reconstructions of paleoweather in relation to climate change in atmospheric and ocean circulation, winds, waves, currents, and precipitation. This primer applies a cross-disciplinary treatment of large-scale and synoptic climatology to the reconstruction of past climates under the umbrella of synoptic paleoclimatology, providing the theory and application of synoptic paleoclimatology for the study and prediction of future climate evolution. Climate proxy and data-model assimilation methodologies are described in detail, focusing on coasts, the surface ocean, glaciers, and ice sheets. This book also presents a state-of-the-art synthesis of regional climate history across the Southern Hemisphere, including tropical coral reefs, coasts, alpine glaciers, and Antarctica. This book will be invaluable to advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in climatology, paleoclimatology, meteorology, coastal geoscience, glaciology, oceanography, global change, and climate risk assessment.
By interpreting the natural climate archive, this book reconstructs past weather and projects future regional weather and climate patterns.
About the Author
Ian D. Goodwin is a principal scientist at ClimaLab in Australia; Hon. Associate Professor of Marine Climate, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia; and Hon. Associate Professor at the Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia. Dr Goodwin is a specialist in marine and synoptic climatology, paleoclimatology, glaciology, and coastal-marine geoscience. He has been at the forefront of the development of weather and climate regime reconstruction in paleoclimatology using the natural archive including ice cores, glaciers, corals, and coasts. Atmospheric circulation, wind and wave climate, extreme storms, and sea-level studies are central to his research. After a four-decade career, the synoptic paleoclimate approach underpins his research and consulting work in seasonal climate forecasting, climate-change impact assessment, marine weather forecasting, coastal and natural disaster risk assessment, metocean studies, and weather event reconstruction.
Reviews
'Paleoclimatology is a fundamental science for bridging the temporal and spatial gaps in climate observations, a limitation particularly evident in the Southern Hemisphere. Gaining a better understanding of past climate conditions is essential for improving future projections, and doing so requires the integration of knowledge from multiple disciplines: meteorology, oceanography, climatology, paleoclimatology, geomorphology, glaciology, and climate modeling. Aimed at researchers and students interested in studying the climate of the past, present, and future, this volume offers an in-depth review of the scientific literature and presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary insights into the workings of the Earth's climate system. It is an essential resource for those seeking to understand and model the complexity of global climate with a comprehensive and inclusive view of phenomena acting at different temporal and spatial scales. The multidisciplinary approach of the topics covered in this book is completely innovative.' Barbara Stenni, Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia
'A thorough, well-researched and referenced overview of synoptic climatology, starting with the history of climate understanding, through to contemporary global circulation and climatology, and the evidence and tools used to studying palaeoclimatology, with a view to using this to model future climatology and its impacts. A must for anyone seriously interested in understanding the drivers of our past, present and future climate.' Andrew D. Short, University of Sydney
Book Information
ISBN 9781108840842
Author Ian D. Goodwin
Format Hardback
Page Count 764
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 500g
By interpreting the natural climate archive, this book reconstructs past weather and projects future regional weather and climate patterns.
About the Author
Ian D. Goodwin is a principal scientist at ClimaLab in Australia; Hon. Associate Professor of Marine Climate, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Australia; and Hon. Associate Professor at the Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia. Dr Goodwin is a specialist in marine and synoptic climatology, paleoclimatology, glaciology, and coastal-marine geoscience. He has been at the forefront of the development of weather and climate regime reconstruction in paleoclimatology using the natural archive including ice cores, glaciers, corals, and coasts. Atmospheric circulation, wind and wave climate, extreme storms, and sea-level studies are central to his research. After a four-decade career, the synoptic paleoclimate approach underpins his research and consulting work in seasonal climate forecasting, climate-change impact assessment, marine weather forecasting, coastal and natural disaster risk assessment, metocean studies, and weather event reconstruction.
Reviews
'Paleoclimatology is a fundamental science for bridging the temporal and spatial gaps in climate observations, a limitation particularly evident in the Southern Hemisphere. Gaining a better understanding of past climate conditions is essential for improving future projections, and doing so requires the integration of knowledge from multiple disciplines: meteorology, oceanography, climatology, paleoclimatology, geomorphology, glaciology, and climate modeling. Aimed at researchers and students interested in studying the climate of the past, present, and future, this volume offers an in-depth review of the scientific literature and presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary insights into the workings of the Earth's climate system. It is an essential resource for those seeking to understand and model the complexity of global climate with a comprehensive and inclusive view of phenomena acting at different temporal and spatial scales. The multidisciplinary approach of the topics covered in this book is completely innovative.' Barbara Stenni, Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia
'A thorough, well-researched and referenced overview of synoptic climatology, starting with the history of climate understanding, through to contemporary global circulation and climatology, and the evidence and tools used to studying palaeoclimatology, with a view to using this to model future climatology and its impacts. A must for anyone seriously interested in understanding the drivers of our past, present and future climate.' Andrew D. Short, University of Sydney
Book Information
ISBN 9781108840842
Author Ian D. Goodwin
Format Hardback
Page Count 764
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 500g
