Description
The book deals with natural climate variations during the last 600,000 years. Among the topics astronomical influence on paleoclimates, climate and environment, natural CO2-variants based on investigations of ice curves and climatic information from wood density are the most important. This long and short term variability is the base for modelling and prediction of anthropogenically induced climatic changes. Variability of the solar “constant”.- Causes of interannual global temperature variations over the period since 1861.- Climatic information for the past hundred years in width and density of conifer growth rings.- Variations in the spring-summer climate of central europe from the high middle ages to 1850.- Norwegian sea deep water variations over the last climatic cycle: Paleo-oceanographical implications.- Numerical models of climate.- Sensitivity of present-day climate to astronomical forcing.- Causes and effects of natural CO2 variations during the glacial-interglacial cycles.
