Linking Climate Change to Land Surface Change

Our views and understanding of variations in climate, geomorphological processes and the interrelationships that exist between climatic changes and land surface changes, both now and in the past, developed greatly during the 1990s. This book aims to encapsulate some of these advances and focuses on the integration of research that has been conducted by geomorphologists and climatologists on linking climate and land surface changes. The book is divided into two main parts: Section A incorporates research that has concentrated on short-term variations in climate, whilst Section B looks at some of the work on long-term climate variability. The volume concludes with a summary chapter that brings together the various ideas that have been presented in this work and other recent research in this general field. The text should be of interest to upper level students of geomorphology, Quaternary studies, climatology, earth sciences, and environmental studies, and to researchers in these fields.