The Role of Tropics in Climate Change

Global Case Studies

1st Edition - November 28, 2023
Imprint: Elsevier
Author: Neloy Khare
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
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Cover image
Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
Contributors
About the editor
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The importance of tropics in the changing climate
1. Introduction
2. Organization of the chapter
3. Conclusion and pathways
Chapter 2. Climate change impacts on water resources and agriculture in Southeast Asia with a focus on Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia
1. Introduction
2. Climate change over Southeast Asia
3. Impacts on agriculture and water resources
4. Practices for adaptive actions
5. Priorities for climate-resilient agriculture and water sectors
Chapter 3. Interrelationship between climate justice and migration: A case of south western coastal region of Bangladesh
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Results: Quantitative analysis
4. Qualitative analysis
5. Discussions
6. Conclusions
Chapter 4. Climate change projection: precipitation concentration changes over Bangladesh
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
3. Result and discussion
4. Implication for hydro-meteorological events
5. Conclusions
Chapter 5. Climate variability, observed climate trends, and future climate projections for Sri Lanka
1. Introduction
2. Interannual and intraseasonal rainfall variability in Sri Lanka
3. Observed local trends
4. Climate change—future climate change projections
5. Conclusions
Chapter 6. A review study on the artifacts, vertebrate remains, and volcanic ash of peninsular Malaysia and their significance to reconstruct paleoclimate
1. Introduction
2. History of human occupation in the Peninsula
3. Origin, migration, and settlement of hominids in Malaysia
4. Evolution and migration of quaternary faunas and their detailed studies
5. Occurrence and source of volcanic ash
6. Controversies over the impact of YTT ash on the ecosystem
7. Conclusions
Chapter 7. Bhutan and the geography of climate change
1. Introduction
2. The discourse on climate change in Bhutan
3. Hydropower in Bhutan in context to climate change
4. Climate change, global warming, and glaciers in Bhutan
5. Agriculture in the context of climate change
6. Geographies of climate change
Chapter 8. Study of spatio-temporal climate variability and changes in South America using climate data tools
1. Introduction
2. Data and methodology
3. Results and discussions
4. Conclusions
Chapter 9. Climate change scenario over Japan: trends and impacts
1. Introduction
2. Present climate over Japan
3. Projected climate change over Japan
4. Impacts
5. Summary
6. Declarations
Funding
Authors' contributions
Chapter 10. A brief review of climate in Taiwan
1. Introduction: hydroclimate of Taiwan
2. Contemporary climate in Taiwan
3. Hydroclimate variability in Taiwan during the late Holocene
4. Critical issues remaining
Chapter 11. Potential of the lake sediments study of Ethiopia in understanding the Holocene climatic conditions: a case study of Chamo Lake, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region, Ethiopia
1. Introduction
2. Description of the study area
3. Material and methods
4. Results and discussion
5. Conclusions and recommendation
Chapter 12. High-resolution paleoclimatic records from the tropical delta shelf off Ayeyarwady, Myanmar
1. Preamble
2. Why foraminifera?
3. Status of foraminiferal studies from the Bay of Bengal
4. Significance of studying benthic foraminiferal distributions on the Ayeyarwady shelf
5. The Indo-Myanmar joint oceanographic studies
6. Objectives of the present study
7. Myanmar Ayeyarwady delta shelf
8. Data collection and analysis: the systematic approach to paleoclimatic studies
9. Comparison of the foraminiferal assemblages from Ayeyarwady delta shelf with adjoining coasts: insights into global ocean-atmospheric linkages of the study area
10. Relict benthic foraminifera and sea level history along west coast of Myanmar
11. Subsurface foraminiferal signatures on Ayeyarwady Delta shelf: intradecadal paleoclimatic records for the past five centuries
12. Periodicity in paleoclimatic records
13. Conclusions
Chapter 13. Sedimentation model for the Pinjor Formation of the Upper Siwalik, Dehradun Sub-basin, Garhwal Himalaya, India: a response of climate and tectonics
1. Introduction
2. Geology of the area
3. Methodology
4. Lithofacies analysis
5. Lithofacies association
6. Palaeocurrent pattern
7. Petrography
8. Depositional model
9. Discussion
10. Conclusions
Chapter 14. A catalogue of Quaternary diatoms from the Asian tropics with their environmental indication potential for paleolimnological applications
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Result
4. Conclusions
Chapter 15. Environmental disaster in Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand, India: an analogy to climate change and anthropogenic interference
1. Introduction
2. Conclusions
Chapter 16. Geological/paleontological applications in marine archeology: few examples from Indian waters
1. Ground penetrating radar for subsurface information
2. Marine sediments as a source of reconstruction of the past
3. Microfossils with special reference to foraminifera
4. Foraminifera
5. Reconstruction of past sea-level changes
6. Sea-level fluctuations and marine archeology
7. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Chapter 17. Introspecting contribution and preparedness of tropical agriculture against climate change: an Indian perspective
1. Background
2. Methodology
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Chapter 18. Mechanisms and proxies of solar forcing on climate and a peek into Indian paleoclimatic records
1. Introduction
2. Sun as the eternal driver of the Earth's climate: an historical perspective
3. Sun: the external driver of Earth's climate
4. The climatic manifestations of solar activity: obvious correlations of the inquisitive
5. Solar cycles
6. Proxies and paleoclimatic records of solar cycles
7. Prediction of solar cycles
8. Conclusions
Glossary
Author index
Index

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