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Altération --- Latérite --- Paléopédologie --- Géologie --- Laterite --- Paleoclimatology --- Paleopedology
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"This book introduces the reader to all the basic physical building blocks of climate needed to understand the present and past climate of Earth, the climates of Solar System planets, and the climates of extrasolar planets. These building blocks include thermodynamics, infrared radiative transfer, scattering, surface heat transfer and various processes governing the evolution of atmospheric composition. Nearly four hundred problems are supplied to help consolidate the reader's understanding, and to lead the reader towards original research on planetary climate. This textbook is invaluable for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate students in atmospheric science, Earth and planetary science, astrobiology, and physics. It also provides a superb reference text for researchers in these subjects, and is very suitable for academic researchers trained in physics or chemistry who wish to rapidly gain enough background to participate in the excitement of the new research opportunities opening in planetary climate"-- "The climate system is made up of building blocks which in themselves are based on elementary physical principles, but which have surprising and profound collective behavior when allowed to interact on the planetary scale. In this sense, the "climate game" is rather like the game of Go, where interesting structure emerges from the interaction of simple rules on a big playing field, rather than complexity in the rules themselves. This book is intended to provide a rapid entré into this fascinating universe of problems for the student who is already somewhat literate in physics and mathematics, but who has not had any previous experience with climate problems. The subject matter of each individual chapter could easily fill a textbook many times over, but even the abbreviated treatment given here provides enough core material for the student to begin treating original questions in the physics of climate"--
Meteorology. Climatology --- Planetary meteorology --- Climatology --- Paleoclimatology --- Climatologie --- Paléoclimatologie --- Planetary meteorology. --- Climatology. --- Paleoclimatology. --- Paléoclimatologie
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The book discusses the ideas and creates a framework for building toward a theory of paleoclimate. Using the rich and mounting array of observational evidence of climatic changes from geology, geochemistry, and paleontology, Saltzman offers a dynamical approach to the theory of paleoclimate evolution and an expanded theory of climate.Saltzman was a distinquished authority on dynamical meteorology. This book provides a comprehensive framework based on dynamical system ideas for a theory of climate and paleoclimatic evolution which is intended for graduate students and research workers
Geologic climate --- Klimatologie [Paleo ] --- Palaeoclimatology --- Paleoclimate --- Paleoclimatology --- Paleoklimatologie --- Paläoklimatologie --- Paléoclimatologie --- Paléoclimats --- Paléotempérature --- Préhistoire -- Climat --- Paléoclimatologie. --- Paleoclimatology. --- Climatic changes --- Climatology
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551.583 --- Paleoclimatology --- Geologic climate --- Palaeoclimatology --- Paleoclimate --- Climatic changes --- Climatology --- Variations of climate. Climatic change --- 551.583 Variations of climate. Climatic change --- Paleoclimatology.
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Climatic changes --- Paleoclimatology --- Paleoanthropology --- Mammoths --- Climat --- Paléoclimatologie --- Paléoanthropologie --- Mammouths --- Changements --- Paléoclimatologie --- Paléoanthropologie --- Climatic changes.
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Global warming is contentious and difficult to measure, even among the majority of scientists who agree that it is taking place. Will temperatures rise by 2oC or 8oC over the next hundred years? Will sea levels rise by 2 or 30 feet? The only way that we can accurately answer questions like these is by looking into the distant past, for a comparison with the world long before the rise of mankind. We may currently believe that atmospheric shifts, like global warming, result from our impact on the planet, but the earth's atmosphere has been dramatically shifting since its creation. This book reveals the crucial role that plants have played in determining atmospheric change - and hence the conditions on the planet we know today. Along the way a number of fascinating puzzles arise: Why did plants evolve leaves? When and how did forests once grow on Antarctica? How did prehistoric insects manage to grow so large? The answers show the extraordinary amount plants can tell us about the history of the planet -- something that has often been overlooked amongst the preoccuputations with dinosaur bones and animal fossils. David Beerling's surprising conclusions are teased out from various lines of scientific enquiry, with evidence being brought to bear from fossil plants and animals, computer models of the atmosphere, and experimental studies. Intimately bound up with the narrative describing the dynamic evolution of climate and life through Earth's history, we find Victorian fossil hunters, intrepid polar explorers and pioneering chemists, alongside wallowing hippos, belching volcanoes, and restless landmasses.
Plants, Fossil --- Plants --- Paleobotany --- Paleoecology --- Historical geology --- Evolution --- Plants, Fossil. --- Paléobotanique --- Historical geology. --- Paleobotany. --- Paleoclimatology. --- Paleoecology. --- Evolution. --- Paleoclimatology --- Plantes --- Paléoécologie --- Paléoclimatologie --- Geologie historique --- Plants - Evolution
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Climatology --- Paleoclimatology --- Climatologie --- Paléoclimatologie --- Textbooks --- Manuels d'enseignement supérieur --- Paléoclimatologie --- Manuels d'enseignement supérieur --- Textbooks.
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Climatic geomorphology --- Géomorphologie climatique --- Géomorphologie climatique --- Paleoclimatology --- Climatic changes --- Paléoclimatologie --- Climat --- Changements --- Climatic changes. --- Acqui 2006
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