Borehole Climatology

Climate for the 21st century is expected to be very different from the present and recent past. Industrialization, growth, growth, and growth. Air temperature is rising rapidly. Six of the warmest years occurred in the 1990s. Temperatures predicted for the 21st century ranges well above the present day.

The time period of the last 100 years is covered by the direct meteorological observations. A faithful prediction of the future requires an understanding of how climate system works, ie to reconstruct the past. Borehole paleoclimatology allows climate reconstruction of metallological observations. Considerable debates have recently been focused on the present-day warming, eventually to quantify their regional distribution. Complex interpretation of borehole data with the proxies and additional socio-economic information can hopefully help. On landed agriculture and subsistence, land-use (farming) and urbanization. Precise temperature-time monitoring in shallow subsurface can further provide the magnitude of present-day warming within a relatively short time intervals.

As far as we know about Borehole climatology. Only relatively rarely is the climate modeled on climate modeling. There are, however, a series of papers focussing on various journals (eg Global and Planetary Change, Climate Change, Tectonophysics, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, etc.). Time to time a special issue appears during the specialized symposia.

Key Features

- Description of a new useful alternative paleoclimate reconstruction method
- A suitable source of information for those who want to learn more about climate change
- Material for lecturing and use in the classroom
- Ample practical examples of borehole temperature inversions worldwide
- Ample illustrations and reference list
- Authors have a good knowledge of 20 years of experience, one of them actually pioneered the method

Key Features

- Description of a new useful alternative paleoclimate reconstruction method
- A suitable source of information for those who want to learn more about climate change
- Material for lecturing and use in the classroom
- Ample practical examples of borehole temperature inversions worldwide
- Ample illustrations and reference list
- Authors have a good knowledge of 20 years of experience, one of them actually pioneered the method

Preface
Chapter I. Background and History of the Problem
Chapter II. Climate Change and Subsurface Temperature
Chapter III. Ground Temperature Histories: evidence of changing climate
Chapter IV. Subsurface Temperature Monitoring: present-day temperature change and its variability