Synoptic Paleoclimatology
Synoptic Paleoclimatology
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GBPProjecting regional climate change over this century and the next remains challenging due to the chaotic nature of weather, but it is made more reliable through reconstructions of paleoweather in relation to climate change in atmospheric and ocean circulation, winds, waves, currents, and precipitation. This primer applies a cross-disciplinary treatment of large-scale and synoptic climatology to the reconstruction of past climates under the umbrella of synoptic paleoclimatology, providing the theory and application of synoptic paleoclimatology for the study and prediction of future climate evolution. Climate proxy and data–model assimilation methodologies are described in detail, focusing on coasts, the surface ocean, glaciers, and ice sheets. This book also presents a state-of-the-art synthesis of regional climate history across the Southern Hemisphere, including tropical coral reefs, coasts, alpine glaciers, and Antarctica. This book will be invaluable to advanced students, researchers, and practitioners in climatology, paleoclimatology, meteorology, coastal geoscience, glaciology, oceanography, global change, and climate risk assessment.
- Makes modern large-scale to synoptic climatology accessible to paleoclimate and paleoceanography students in the one book
- Provides the first comprehensive treatment of Southern Hemisphere paleoclimatology, with a particular focus on marine, glacial and Antarctic regions and their interaction
- Is the first text on paleoclimatology that brings together the high-resolution climate proxies (ice cores, corals, tree rings and speleothems) with the geomorphic and hydrologic climate proxies (coasts, continental shelves and glaciers)
Reviews & endorsements
'Paleoclimatology is a fundamental science for bridging the temporal and spatial gaps in climate observations, a limitation particularly evident in the Southern Hemisphere. Gaining a better understanding of past climate conditions is essential for improving future projections, and doing so requires the integration of knowledge from multiple disciplines: meteorology, oceanography, climatology, paleoclimatology, geomorphology, glaciology, and climate modeling. Aimed at researchers and students interested in studying the climate of the past, present, and future, this volume offers an in-depth review of the scientific literature and presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary insights into the workings of the Earth's climate system. It is an essential resource for those seeking to understand and model the complexity of global climate with a comprehensive and inclusive view of phenomena acting at different temporal and spatial scales. The multidisciplinary approach of the topics covered in this book is completely innovative.' Barbara Stenni, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
'A thorough, well-researched and referenced overview of synoptic climatology, starting with the history of climate understanding, through to contemporary global circulation and climatology, and the evidence and tools used to studying palaeoclimatology, with a view to using this to model future climatology and its impacts. A must for anyone seriously interested in understanding the drivers of our past, present and future climate.' Andrew D. Short, University of Sydney
Product details
August 2025Hardback
9781108840842
764 pages
254 × 178 mm
Not yet published - available from August 2025
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I. Atmosphere–Ocean Circulation and Synoptic Paleoclimatology
- 1. A Synoptic View of Paleoclimate
- 2. Atmosphere–Ocean Circulation, Heat and Moisture Budgets
- Part II. Synoptic Circulation and Weather Regimes
- 3. Large-Scale to Synoptic Circulation of the Southern Hemisphere
- 4. Regional Ocean Wind, Wave, and Sea-Level Climate of the Southern Hemisphere
- 5. Regional Climate and Weather Regimes
- Part III. Synoptic Paleoclimate from the Natural Archive – Environmental Impact to PaleoWeather Regimes
- 6. The Coastal Geomorphic Archive of Ocean Wave Climate and Paleoweather
- 7. The Tropical Archive of Marine Paleoweather, Climate, and Sea Level
- 8. The Tropical to Subantarctic Glacial Archive and Response to Weather and Climate
- 9. Tropical to Subantarctic Regional Glacier–Weather Regime Relationships and Glacial History
- 10. The Ice Core Archive Part 1: Hydroclimate, Stable Isotopes and Weather Regimes
- 11. The Ice Core Archive Part 2: Aerosol Tracers to Air Mass Trajectories and Weather Regimes
- Part IV. Synoptic Paleoclimate Reconstruction, Data–Model Assimilation, and Causal Networks
- 12. Paleoclimate Reconstruction Part 1: Data–Model Assimilation Approaches
- 13. Paleoclimate Reconstruction Part 2: Advances in Defining Large-Scale Circulation Evolution
- References
- Index
