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Borehole Climatology - a new method how to reconstruct climate (Hardcover)
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Borehole Climatology - a new method how to reconstruct climate (Hardcover)
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Climate for the 21st century is expected to be considerably
different from the present and recent past. Industrialization
growth combined with the increasing CO2 concentration in the
atmosphere and massive deforestation are well above the values over
the past several decades and are expected to further grow. Air
temperature is rising rapidly well as does the weather variability
producing frequent extreme events. Six of the ten warmest years
occurred in the 1990s. Temperatures predicted for the 21st century
ranges well above the present day value.
The time period of the last 100-200 years covered by the direct
meteorological observations is too short and does not provide
material to reliably assess what may happen over the next
hundred(s) years. A faithful prediction of the future requires
understanding how climate system works, i.e. to reconstruct past
climate much further in the past. Borehole paleoclimatology enables
climate reconstruction of the past several millennia, unlike proxy
methods provides direct past temperature assessment and can well
broaden the areal range to the remote regions poorly covered with
meteorological observations. Considerable debates have recently
focused on the causes of the present-day warming, i.e. to
distinguish between the natural and anthropogenic contribution to
the observed temperature increase, eventually to quantify their
regional distribution. Complex interpretation of borehole data with
the proxies and additional socio-economic information can hopefully
help. On observed data taken in various places all over the world
we demonstrate suitable examples of the interaction between the
subsurface temperature response to time changes in vegetation
cover, land-use (farming) and urbanization. Precise
temperature-time monitoring in shallow subsurface can further
provide the magnitude of the present-day warming within relatively
short time intervals.
As far as we know, there exists so far no book dealing entirely
with the subject of the Borehole climatology. Only relatively
rarely this method is mentioned in otherwise plentiful literature
on climate reconstruction or on climate modelling. There are,
however, series of papers focussing on various borehole--climate
related studies in numerous journals (e.g. Global and Planetary
Change, Climate Change, Tectonophysics, Journal of Geophysical
Research, Geophysical Research Letters, etc). Time to time a
special issue appears to summarize papers on this topic presented
during specialized symposia.
Key Features
- Description of a new useful alternative paleoclimate
reconstruction method
- A suitable source of information for those wishing to learn more
about climate change
- Material for lecturing and use in the classroom
- Ample practical examples of borehole temperature inversions
worldwide
- Ample illustrations and reference list
- Authors have a good knowledge of the problem based on more than
20 years of experience, one of them actually pioneered the method
Key Features
- Description of a new useful alternative paleoclimate
reconstruction method
- A suitable source of information for those wishing to learn more
about climate change
- Material for lecturing and use in the classroom
- Ample practical examples of borehole temperature inversions
worldwide
- Ample illustrations and reference list
- Authors have a good knowledge of the problem based on more than
20 years of experience, one of them actually pioneered the method
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