Climate Development and History of the North Atlantic Realm

Concepts and Ideas.- Climate History and the Great Geophysical Experiment.- Towards a History of Ideas on Anthropogenic Climate Change.- Decadal to Millennial Variability.- Climate Dynamics of the North Atlantic and NW-Europe: An Observation-Based Overview.- Holocene Climate Variability on Centennial-to-Millennial Time Scales: 1. Climate Records from the North-Atlantic Realm.- Holocene Climate Variability on Centennial-to-Millennial Time Scales: 2. Internal and Forced Oscillations as Possible Causes.- Solar Forcing of Climate Change in Recent Millennia.- Times of Quiet, Times of Agitation: Sverdrup's Conjecture and the Bermuda Coral Record.- A Case for Climate Cycles: Orbit, Sun and Moon.- Tracing Climate-Variability: The Search for Climate Dynamics on Decadal to Millennial Time Scales.- Holocene Variability.- Holocene Climate and Past Volcanism: Greenland - Northern Europe.- Holocene Climate Evolution of the North Atlantic Ocean and the Nordic Seas - A Synthesis of New Results.- Holocene Climatic History of Northern Europe - the Evidence from Lake Deposits.- Climate Changes During the Holocene Recorded by Lakes from Europe.- The Post-Glacial Evolution of the Baltic Sea.- Holocene Climatic History of Northern Europe as Recorded by Vegetation Changes: Possible Influences Upon Human Activity.- Late Glacial and Holocene Glacier Fluctuations and Climatic Variations in Southern Norway.- Holocene Paleoenvironmental Changes in North-West Europe: Climatic Implications and the Human Dimension.- Climate History and Human Activity.- Landscape Development and Occupation History Along the Southern North Sea Coast.- Climatic Change in Northern Europe Over the Last Two Thousand Years and its Possible Influence on Human Activity.- Human Stature and Climate: The Impact of PastClimate on Living Standards.- Malaria Around the North Sea: A Survey.- Patterns of Climate in Central Europe Since Viking Times.- On the Holocene Water Balance in Central Europe and Several Historical Consequences.- "Narrowest-Ring" Events in the Irish Oak Chronology: Uncertainties in Reconstructing Cause and Effect in Prehistory.- Coastal Zone and Human Activity.- The Pleistocene and Holocene Development of the Southeastern North Sea Basin and Adjacent Coastal Areas.- Effects of Climate and Human Interventions on the Evolution of the Wadden Sea Depositional System (Southern North Sea).- Historic Storms in the North Sea Area, an Assessment of the Storm Data, the Present Position of Research and the Prospects for Future Research.- Climate Variability and Historical NW European Fisheries.- Changes in Coastal Zone Ecosystems.- The Impact of Harmful Algal Blooms in Natural and Human-Modified Systems of Northern Europe.- Climate and Human Induced Impacts on the Coastal Zone of the Southern North Sea.

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"Can the study of climate and history help in devising strategies for coping with global environmental change? What might be the type of information most useful in this context? These and similar questions were discussed by experts from the natural and social sciences ... during a four day workshop, and the resulting proceedings are presented in this title, with comprehensive papers of broad interest, thematic background papers, and reports of study groups." (Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, October, 2003)