History and Climate Memories of the Future?

Most studies of the impacts of climate change consider impacts in the future from anthropogenic climate change. Very few consider what the impacts of past climate change have been. History and Climate: Memories of the Future? contains 13 interdisciplinary chapters which consider impacts of change in...

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Other Authors: Jones, Phil D. (Editor), Ogilvie, A.E.J. (Editor), Davies, T.D. (Editor), Briffa, K.R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2001, 2001
Edition:1st ed. 2001
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Unlocking the Doors to the Past: Recent Developments in Climate and Climate-impact Research
  • Pre-instrumental Weather Observations in Poland in the 16th and 17th Centuries
  • The Late Maunder Minimum (1675–1715) — climax of the “Little Ice Age” in Europe
  • Early European Instrumental Records
  • Circulation Changes in Europe since the 1780s
  • A millennium of Weather, Winds and Water in the Low Countries
  • Long Climatic Series from Austria
  • The Onset of the Little Ice Age
  • Sea Ice-Climate-Glacier Relationships in Northern Iceland Since the Nineteenth Century: Possible Analogues for the Holocene
  • The Impact of Short-term Climate Change on British and French Agriculture and Population in the First Half of the 18th Century
  • Bons Baisers d’Islande: Climatic, Environmental, and Human Dimensions Impacts of the Lakagígar Eruption (1783–1784) in Iceland
  • The Effect of Climatic Variation on Pelagic Fish and Fisheries
  • Climate and Human Health Linkages on Multiple Timescales