The Global Thermohaline Paleocirculation
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
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Elena V. Ivanova
The Global Thermohaline Paleocirculation
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Dr. Elena V. Ivanova Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Russian Academy of Sciences 36 Nakhimovsky Prospekt 117997 Moscow Russia [email protected]
Translated by Ivar Murdmaa and Anna Stepanova.
ISBN 978-90-481-2414-5 e-ISBN 978-90-481-2415-2 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2415-2 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009928018 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009 The Russian language edition of the book Globalnaya termohalinnaya paleotcirculatcia was first published by Nauchnij Mir, Moscow, Russia, 2006. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Memory of Sergey Lappo
Preface
Since 2006, when the Russian edition of The Global Thermohaline Paleocirculation was issued by Scientific World, several books and hundreds of relevant international papers have been published in the domain of paleoceanography and paleoclimatology. The uprising interest in this subject encouraged me to revise and translate the monograph initially destined to summarize my own research over the last years and to compile the overview of the up-to-date knowledge on the past ocean circulation to my Russian colleagues who still have limited access to the international publications. Although this English edition is extensively revised, I was not pretending to consider all currently debatable topics in such large and rapidly evolving field as the study of past ocean circulation. Very important subjects of the climate research like greenhouse gases, orbital theory of climate, and others are only mentioned briefly in this book since the major goal of this work was to consider more carefully the data and ideas on the global paleocirculation from my perspective. Several important areas of the World Ocean where I have not worked are omitted or shortly discussed in the last chapter on the global teleconnections. I am aware of these disadvantages in the book and regret about not being able to provide a complete review of all aspects of current research and debates on paleocirculation in the same detail. Instead, I hope the book will enable interested readers to review the recent and classical scientific publications cited here and learn about the achievements in modern and past circulation studies in Russia, as the reference list contains more than a hundred publications in Russian. In total, the list of literature in the English editions contains 140 new references. Chapter 1 presents a short review of ideas led up to the concept of the global conveyor belt and the basic knowledge on
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