Southern Hemisphere Paleo- and Neoclimates: Key Sites, Methods, Data and Models [Paperback]

Climate models show that climate change is not a uniform process. Areas of increased temperature are situated near areas of decreased temperature, areas with increased precipitation adjoin areas of drought. This is one of the reasons why climate change is so difficult to detect. Any parameter must be considered and tested locally or regionally and not on an average globally. This book gives an overview of current research methods and results in the different fields of climate research including modelling. In addition, it contains a hemisphere-wide stratigraphic data base with about 80000 species. All paleoclimatic data as well as a state-of-the-art atmospheric circulation model in a PC version are included. So both research and graduate teaching are supported with high-end software running on affordable computers, also in those countries that have no access to Cray super computers. Thus, this book will be of interest to all researchers and scientists in the field of climatology.
1: Methods.- Neural Network Analysis of Time Series: Applications to Climatic Data.- One-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Flow in Complex Networks: State of the Art,Some Applications and Generalizations.- Dendroclimatology: A Southern Hemisphere Perspective.- The Chemical History of the Atmosphere: Self-Organizing Processes and Biological Consequences.- Magnetic Signatures of Pampean Soils, A Case Study.- Pole-Equator-Pole Paleoclimates of the Americas: PEP 1 A Review.- 2: Historical and Modern Climates.- Archival Evidence for some Aspects of Historical Climate Variability in Argentina and Bolivia during the 17thand18th Centuries.- Recent Glacier Fluctuations in the Southern Andes.- Palynological Data Indicating Glacier Growth and Environmental Conditions.- A Hybrid Expert System for the Prediction of Extreme Meteorological Situations such as the Zonda Wind in the Cuyo Region, Western Argentina.- Impact of ENSO Events on the Hydrological System of the Cordillera de Los Andes during the laslÓÈ