The Global Thermohaline Paleocirculation

• Main Author: Ivanova, Elena. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Geography.; Oceanography.; Aquatic biology.; Climatic changes.; Ecology.; Earth Sciences.; Climate Change.; Freshwater & Marine Ecology.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2415-2

Originally published in Russian in 2006, this is the first English translation of this important book on paleoceanography and paleoclimatology. Its initial publication was followed by a surge of interest in this subject prompting the author to revise and translate her original work. In the book, she...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Chapter 1. The global thermohaline circulation and the main stages of its development during the Cenozoic
• Chapter 2. Methods and proxies of paleoceanographic reconstruction
• Chapter 3. Variability of the meridional overturning circulation and paleoceanographic events in the North Atlantic during the last climatic cycle
• Chapter 4. Influence of the global thermohaline circulation on paleoceanographic events in the Eurasian Arctic seas
• Chapter 5. Paleoceanography of the northern Indian Ocean: linkages to monsoon and global thermohaline paleocirculation
• Chapter 6. Influence of the thermohaline circulation on paleoceanographic events in the South China Sea
• Chapter 7. The role of thermohaline circulation in global teleconnections.