Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes: Data, Spectral Analysis and Mechanisms

ISBN-13: 9783540437796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 318 str.

R. Muller; Berndt J. Luderitz; G. J. MacDonald

Opis

It is hard to understand the present or future climate unless scientists can account for the enormous and rapid cycles of glaciation that have taken place over the last million years, and this study takes an overview of the developments in this hugely interdisciplinary field.

Spis treści

1. Brief Introduction.- 2. Astronomy.- 3. Spectral Analysis.- 4. Climate proxies.- 5. Time scale and timing.- 6. Mechanisms, models and theories.- 7. Accretion climate models.- 8. Evidence.- 9. Status of our understanding.- Appendix 1. Bispectral analysis.- Appendix 2. Matlab programs.- Appendix 3. Maximum entropy plots.- Appendix 4. Websites for data.

O autorze

Richard A. Muller ist Professor für Physik an der Universität von Berkeley, Kalifornien. Er genießt weltweit einen hervorragenden Ruf als Wissenschaftler und wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem begehrten MacArthur Fellowship. Mullers Studenten schätzen vor allem sein Talent, schwierige Sachverhalte verständlich zu erklären. Muller ist offizieller Regierungsberater und gefragter Experte bei zahlreichen Fernsehproduktionen u. a. der BBC.

Blurb

Ice Ages and Astronomical Causes is concerned with one of the most active interdisciplinary areas of the present day, with new discoveries and data emerging all the time. This information must be carefully and rigorously analysed using sophisticated mathematical techniques, and the authors successfuly explain both the data an the methods of analysis. This book combines a theoretical presentation of the methods with practical instructions and numerous Matlab recipes making it of the greatest use to the practising geologist and paleoclimatologist. This unique book provides a foundation for students and professionals alike who want answers to questions about the Earth's past, thus helping them to predict what is to come.