Dynamical Paleoclimatology: Generalized Theory of Global Climate Change

Barry Saltzman

Academic Press, 2002 - Nature - 354 pages

The book discusses the ideas and creates a framework for building toward a theory of paleoclimate. Using the rich and mounting array of observational evidence of climatic changes from geology, geochemistry, and paleontology, Saltzman offers a dynamical approach to the theory of paleoclimate evolution and an expanded theory of climate.

Saltzman was a distinquished authority on dynamical meteorology. This book provides a comprehensive framework based on dynamical system ideas for a theory of climate and paleoclimatic evolution which is intended for graduate students and research workers in paleoclimatology, earth system studies, and global change research. The book includes an extensive bibliography of geological and physical/dynamical references.

• Written by the late Barry Saltzman who was a distinquished authority on dynamical meteorology
• This book provides a comprehensive framework based on dynamical system ideas for a theory of climate and paleoclimatic evolution
• The book includes extensive bibliography of geological and physical/dynamical references

Contents

• Physics of the Separate Domains: 111
• Unified Dynamical Theory: 233
• Bibliography: 321
• Index: 343
• List of Volumes in the Series: 351
• Color Plate Section: 355

About the author

Barry Saltzman, 1932-2001, was professor of geology and geophysics at Yale University and a pioneer in the theory of weather and climate, in which he made several profound and lasting contributions to knowledge of the atmosphere and climate. Saltzman developed a series of models and theories of how ice sheets, atmospheric winds, ocean currents, carbon dioxide concentration, and other factors work together, causing the climate to oscillate in a 100,000-year cycle. For this and other scientific contributions, he received the 1998 Carl Gustaf Rossby Research Medal, the highest award from the American Meteorological Society. Saltzman was a fellow of the American Meteorological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an honorary member of the Academy of Science of Lisbon. His work in 1962 on thermal convection led to the discovery of chaos theory and the famous "Saltzman-Lorenz attractor."

Bibliographic information

• Title: Dynamical Paleoclimatology: Generalized Theory of Global Climate Change; Volume 80 of Dynamical Paleoclimatology; Volume 80 of International Geophysics, ISSN 0074-6142
• Author: Barry Saltzman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Academic Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0126173311, 9780126173314
• Length: 354 pages
• Subjects: Nature / Weather; Science / Biotechnology; Science / Earth Sciences / Geology; Science / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology; Science / Earth Sciences / Oceanography; Science / Global Warming & Climate Change; Science / Life Sciences / Botany; Science / Paleontology