附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Contributing Authors -- SECTION A: SHORT-TERM CLIMATE VARIABILITY -- Chapter 1 Dust variability over Northern Africa and rainfall in the Sahel -- Chapter 2 Desiccation in the Sahel -- Chapter 3 Hydrological response of desert margins to climate change: The Effect of Changing Surface Properties -- Chapter 4 Weathering, geomorphology and climatic variability in the Central Namib Desert -- Chapter 5 Warm season land surface-climate interactions in the United States Midwest from mesoscale observations -- Chapter 6 Streamflow changes in the Sierra Nevada, California, simulated using a statistically downscaled General Circulation Model scenario of climate change -- Chapter 7 Examining links between climate change and landslide activity using GCMS: Case Studies from Italy and New Zealand -- SECTION B: LONG-TERM CLIMATE VARIABILITY -- Chapter 8 Geologic evidence of rapid, multiple and high magnitude climate change during the last glacial (Wisconsinan) of North America -- Chapter 9 Aeolian geomorphie response to climate change: an example from the Estancia valley, Central New Mexico, U.S.A. -- Chapter 10 Evaporite minerals and organic horizons in sedimentary sequences in the Libyan Fezzan: implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction -- Chapter 11 Relict cryogenic mounds in the UK as evidence of climate Change -- Chapter 12 Investigations into Long-Term Future Climate Changes -- SECTION C: SUMMARY -- Chapter 13 Geomorphological and climatological perspectives on land surface ... climate change.