04330nam a22005055i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001100153072001400164072002300178072001300201100007500214245011700289250001800406264007500424300006800499336002600567337002600593338003600619347002400655490008000679505036900759520216501128650002003293650001503313650002403328650001703352650003803369650002003407650002703427650002803454650002403482650002403506710003403530773002603564776003603590776003603626776003603662830008003698856004603778978-3-031-31921-1DE-He21320251030112642.0cr nn 008mamaa240722s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830313192117 a10.1007/978-3-031-31921-12doi 4aG1-922 7aR2bicssc 7aSCI0190002bisacsh 7aR2thema1 aHeine, Klaus.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut14aThe Quaternary in the Tropicsh[electronic resource] :bA Reconstruction of the Palaeoclimate /cby Klaus Heine.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer International Publishing :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXIII, 678 p. 718 illus., 572 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aSpringer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment,x2510-13150 a Introduction -- The Ice Age -- The Oceans -- The Tropics -- Climate Archives -- Regional Description - The Americas -- Regional Description - Africa -- Regional Description - Asia -- Regional Description - Australia, Pacific Island Regions(Oceania), Hawai -- Human Evolution and Climate (Excursus) -- Attempt at a Synopsis (Global Syntheses) -- Literaur -- Index.  aThe Ice Age (Quaternary) is a period of extreme climate fluctuations that led to the growth and melting of massive ice sheets in the high latitudes. Tropical deserts, savannas, rainforests, and mountainous regions experienced equal dramatic climatic changes of which the traces are preserved in sedimentary deposits. The knowledge of tropical climate history is of paramount importance because in the tropics and marginal tropics, natural and - more recently - human-induced processes significantly control global climate. Yet relatively few palaeoclimate records are known from these regions. This book presents the climate archives of the tropics and critically discusses their palaeoclimatic informative value. Based on decades of research the author demonstrates that a lack of geoecological knowledge leads to misinterpretations in modeling climate futures. The results presented here call for a correction of many widely held views about the role of atmospheric greenhouse gases in globalwarming over the past 150 years. The book is intended for natural scientists of all disciplines who are looking for a synopsis of the problem area "Our climate in the past, present and future in the tropics". The author Professor Dr. rer. nat. Klaus Heine has been researching prehistoric climate since the 1970s, combining glacial geology, desert research, fluvial morphology, and soil science in a multidisciplinary way. Numerous research visits, often lasting several months, have taken him to Mexico, southern Africa, the South American tropics, and Australia. In addition to teaching at the Universities of Bonn, Saarbrücken, and Regensburg, he was a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia (Canada) in 1994 and at Kyoto University (Japan) in 2005/06. He is (co-)author of 150 publications in national and international journals and (co-)editor of several scientific books. He discussed his results in national and international seminars, projects, congresses, and field trips on five continents. Like no other, he surveys the development of global change research since its beginnings and can mediate hotly contested views on climate change. 0aEarth sciences. 0aGeography. 0aPhysical geography. 0aEnvironment.14aEarth and Environmental Sciences.24aEarth Sciences.24aEarth System Sciences.24aEnvironmental Sciences.24aRegional Geography.24aPhysical Geography.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303131920408iPrinted edition:z978303131922808iPrinted edition:z9783031319235 0aSpringer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment,x2510-131540uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31921-1