Content
- The climate system: radiation budget, heat transfer, climate interactions and feedbacks;
- Climate archives, data and models: types of archives, proxy data, dating methods (Radiocarbon, Uranium-isotopes, OSL, dendrochronology), climate models;
- Geological-scale climate change: Greenhouse and other long-term climate controls;
- Climate forcing, orbital parameters and variation in insolation;
- Traditional Ice age models and sea level change: European and American glaciation, sea level curves and components;
- Ice cores: climate indicators and dating methods for reconstructing Quaternary climate variations;
- Ocean cores: climate indicators and dating methods of deep-ocean sediments;
- Terrestrial and documentary indicators: Loess sequences, paleoecological indicators, historic data;
- Characteristics of climate cycles during the Quaternary, at various time scales;
- Mechanisms and controls: orbital variations, Ice sheet dynamics, Thermo-Haline circulation, C-cycle and variations in CO2 concentrations;
- Rapid climate fluctuations during the last glaciation, Younger Dryas, Holocene and in historic time.