Antarctic Climate Evolution

Antarctic Climate Evolution, Second Edition, enhances our understanding of the history of the world’s largest ice sheet, and how it responded to and influenced climate change during the Cenozoic Era. It includes terrestrial and marine geology, sedimentology, glacier geophysics and ship-borne geophysics, coupled with results from numerical ice sheet, ocean and climate modeling. The book’s content largely mirrors the structure of the Past Antarctic Ice Sheets Dynamics (PAIS) program (www.scar.org/science/pais), formed to investigate former changes in Antarctica by supporting multidisciplinary research. This new edition reflects recent advances and is updated with several new chapters, including those covering marine and terrestrial environments, shelf and ice sheet stability, advances in numerical modelling and increasing coverage of rates of environmental change. The approach of the PAIS program has led to substantial improvement in our knowledge of past Antarctic change and our understanding of the factors that have guided its evolution.