Quaternary Climate Change (Quaternary Studies)

Quaternary Climate Change Sites:

Remembrance of Things Past: Greenhouse Lesson from the Geologic Record Remembrance of Things Past: Greenhouse Lesson from the Geologic Record: 100 million years to recent ice age, by Thomas J. Crowley, a marine geologist and climatogist. (Quaternary Climate Change) http://gcrio.org/CONSEQUENCES/winter96/geoclimate.html A New European Ice Age? A New European Ice Age?: Article about the potential climatic impacts of disruptions in the thermohaline circulation system in the North Atlantic. (Quaternary Climate Change) http://www.naturalscience.com/ns/cover/cover5.html IMAGES Project IMAGES Project: The International Marine Global Change Study - investigating the ocean's role in climatic changes during the Late Quaternary, using data from long marine sediment cores. (Quaternary Climate Change) http://images.pclab.ifg.uni-kiel.de/start.html Paleoclimate and Carbon Dioxide Paleoclimate and Carbon Dioxide: Examines the climate variation in the pas, and the link with changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide. (Quaternary Climate Change) http://www.brighton73.freeserve.co.uk/gw/paleo/paleoclimate.htm Climate and Global Change Climate and Global Change: "Science for Everyone" articles from American Geophysical Union publications, primarily for a general audience. (Quaternary Climate Change) http://earth.agu.org/sci_soc/everyonecl.html The Great Climate Flip-Flop The Great Climate Flip-Flop: Atlantic Monthly article reviews the abrupt (less than a decade transition) climate changes of the past, analyzes the role of the Gulf Stream's thermohaline circulation switching modes of operation, and presents three scenarios for the future, including p (Quaternary Climate Change) http://faculty.washington.edu/wcalvin/1990s/1998AtlanticClimate.htm USITASE International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition USITASE International Trans-Antarctic Scientific Expedition: Description, publications, and other scientific contributions from investigations to reconstruct 200 - 2000 years of past climatic and environmental changes in Antarctica, using remote sensing, ice cores, geophysics, and other methods. (Quaternary Climate Change) http://www.ume.maine.edu/USITASE Paleoclimate and Climate Change Group Paleoclimate and Climate Change Group: University of California Santa Cruz. Research areas include climate variability, warm climate transitions, Milankovitch forcing of early Cenozoic climates. (Quaternary Climate Change) http://www.es.ucsc.edu/~lcsloan/ Astronomical Theory of Climate Change Astronomical Theory of Climate Change: NOAA Paleoclimatology Program educational material concerning the Milankovitch theory, which explains changes in the seasons as a result of changes in the earth's orbit around the sun. (Quaternary Climate Change) http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov:80/paleo/milankovitch.html Climate Change: A Geological Perspective - Carleton University, Canada Climate Change: A Geological Perspective - Carleton University, Canada: On-line syllabus and curriculum materials for a university science course on climate change (past, present, and future), its causes and effects. (Quaternary Climate Change) http://www.carleton.ca/~tpatters/teaching/climatechange/climatehome.html NOAA Paleoclimatology Program NOAA Paleoclimatology Program: A central location for paleoclimate data, research, and education. (Quaternary Climate Change) http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/ Astronomical Theory Offers New Explanation For Ice Age Astronomical Theory Offers New Explanation For Ice Age: Article about research suggesting that cyclical changes in the location of the Earth's orbit causing differing amounts of extraterrestrial debris to come into the atmosphere, and not the Milankovitch theory, explain cycles of glaciation in the last millio (Quaternary Climate Change) http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/ice-age-sediments.html