Long-Term Climatic Variations

"For once an exception! ... a solid volume full of the sort of review material that lasts well, despite being in a fast-changing field, as well as nuggets of up-to-date interest." - Geological Magazine

• I - The Climate System and Its Modelling.- Modeling Long-Term Climatic Changes.- Climate Models for the Study of Paleoclimates.- Global Atmospheric Modelling.- Modelling the Ocean Circulation.- Precession, Eccentricity, Obliquity, Insolation and Paleoclimates.- Biosphere Modeling for Climate Studies.- II - Geological Evidences.- Mid-latitude Ice Sheets Through the Last Glacial Cycle: Glaciological and Geological Reconstructions.- The Climatic Record from Antarctic Ice Now Extends Back to 220 kyr BP.- Organic Compounds as Proxy-Indicators of Sea Surface Palaeotemperature: the Uk37 Index.- Evidence for a Change in Atmospheric Circulation During the Younger Dryas.- Temperature of the Last Interglacial Based on ?18O in Mollusks.- Reconstruction of Climatic Zonality in the Indian Ocean During the Neogene.- Surface and Deep Water Circulation Changes During the Last Climatic Cycle.- Statistical Analyses of Biospherical Variability.- Lacustrine Diatoms for Reconstructing Past Hydrology and Climate.- Andean Snowline Evidence for Cooler Subtropics at the Last Glacial Maximum.- Effects of Short and Long Term Climatic Changes on Permafrost - Sedimentological Data.- Box Jenkins Multivariate Modelling and Co-integration: Two Statistical Methods with Potential Usefulness in Climatic Studies.- III - Understanding Climatic Changes.- Measuring the Gain of the Climate System’s Response to Milankovitch Forcing in the Precession and Obliquity Bands.- The Last Two Glacial-lnterglacial Cycles Simulated by the LLN Model.- Physics of the Ice Age Cycle.- A Model Study of the Glacial Oceanic Circulation.- OGCM-constraints to PM’s.- Mid-latitude Depressions During the Last Ice-Age.- Maunder Minimum and the Little Ice Age : Impact of a Long-Term Variation of the Solar Flux on the Energy andWater Cycle.- Climate Model Sensitivity, Paleoclimate and Future Climate Change.