04730nam a22005895i 4500 978-3-031-31921-1 DE-He213 20251030112642.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240722s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031319211 978-3-031-31921-1 10.1007/978-3-031-31921-1 doi G1-922 R bicssc SCI019000 bisacsh R thema Heine, Klaus. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 80996 The Quaternary in the Tropics [electronic resource] : A Reconstruction of the Palaeoclimate / by Klaus Heine. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XIII, 678 p. 718 illus., 572 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment, 2510-1315 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. The 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. Earth sciences. 65010 Geography. 62292 Physical geography. 66716 Environment. 65893 Earth and Environmental Sciences. 67852 Earth Sciences. 65010 Earth System Sciences. 66717 Environmental Sciences. 61155 Regional Geography. 66451 Physical Geography. 66716 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031319204 Printed edition: 9783031319228 Printed edition: 9783031319235 Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment, 2510-1315 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31921-1 ZDB-2-EES ZDB-2-SXEE 61793 61793