Climatic Change and Variability A Southern Perspective

. B. Pittock, L. A. Frakes, D. Jenssen, J. A. Peterson, J. W. Zillman

Penerbit : the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press

Tahun : 1978

The study of climatic change and variability involves a vast range of disciplines, interests and techniques. It is unfortunate, therefore, that it has suffered in the past from a lack of effective communication across disciplinary barriers. Thus, for example, the geological literature contains many examples of sound geology of palaeoclimatic interest which is nevertheless coupled with inadequate meteorological interpretation. Similarly, too much of the meteorological literature, including the new breed of numerical modelling, is lacking in perspective as to the reality of what has happened in the past (and ipso facto is possible). Rigorous interdisciplinary collaboration is lacking in most areas of study, although the CLIMAP programme (CLIMAP Project Members, 1976) is a notable exception.

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