Climate Change Impacts on Cold Climates

• 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

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.