Climate Change Impacts on Cold Climates

Since the onset of Cenozoic ice sheets, cold climate regions have played a leading role in planetary energy balance, atmospheric and global oceanic circulations. Glacial and periglacial processes in polar regions act as morphogenetic agents for landscape sculpting providing landforms and deposits th...

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Main Author: BARONI, CARLO
Other Authors: Shroeder J.F. (Editor in Chief), Giardino R., Harbor J. (Eds.), Baroni, Carlo
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE, 525 B ST, STE 1900, SAN DIEGO, CA 92101-4495 USA 2013
Subjects:
Adélie Penguin
Antarctica
Arctic
Cenozoic
Cimate Change
Glacial history
Holocene
Icehouse
Antarc*
Climate change
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11568/496068
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00222-0
http://store.elsevier.com/Treatise-on-Geomorphologyhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780080885223
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780080885223
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Summary:Since the onset of Cenozoic ice sheets, cold climate regions have played a leading role in planetary energy balance, atmospheric and global oceanic circulations. Glacial and periglacial processes in polar regions act as morphogenetic agents for landscape sculpting providing landforms and deposits that represent valuable records for investigating the amplitude of key phases of Cenozoic glacial history. Glacio-eustatic sea-level variations induce revolutionary environmental changes across the entire planet. Changes in periglacial processes also influence cold region hydrology, ecosystems, and soil carbon storage. Climatic and environmental changes in cold regions cause adaptation through ecological and evolutionary responses by organisms.

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