A state-of-the-art work on modern synoptic climatology and regional weather regimes together with the innovative reconstruction of paleoweather and paleoclimate from the natural archive - surface ocean, coasts, islands and coral reefs, alpine glaciers and ice sheets.

It provides the foundation for understanding weather and climate variability and projecting future regional weather patterns and climate change together with the coupled regional environmental and climate impacts. 

The book has a Southern Hemisphere focus and includes chapters on the regional climate, ocean and glacial history of the Southern Hemisphere.

• Makes modern large-scale to synoptic climatology accessible to paleoclimate and paleoceanographystudents in the one book

• Provides the first comprehensive treatment of Southern Hemisphere paleoclimatology, with a particular focus on marine, glacial and Antarctic regions and their interaction

• Is the first text on paleoclimatology that brings together the high-resolution climate proxies (ice cores, corals, tree rings and speleothems) with the geomorphic and hydrologic climate proxies (coasts, continental shelves and glaciers)

• Is a highly accessible work for the interested non-specialist to learn about the drivers of weather and climate, their variability and their impact on the natural world.

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Reviews & endorsements

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Ian Goodwin’s ‘Synoptic Paleoclimatology’ is a breathtaking and fascinating read, a truly global overview that skillfully combines climatology, oceanography, glaciology and many other geoscientificdisciplines in masterly ways to present a comprehensive overview of global synoptic paleoclimatology in all its facets and in the best Humboldtian sense. The specific and refreshing Southern Hemisphere perspective on global circulation, newly and knowledgeably compiled, makes the book a must-read for scientists and students from the Southern Hemisphere and for anyone with a specific research interest in the tropics and the southern latitudes. Also, readers with a specific interest in the interaction of glaciation and synoptic paleoclimatology in the Southern Hemisphere will find this volume a comprehensive and invaluable compendium of the state of the art.

- Cristoph Schneider, Humboldt-Universität zuBerlin.

'Paleoclimatology is a fundamental science for bridging the temporal and spatial gaps in climate observations, a limitation particularly evident in the Southern Hemisphere. Gaining a better understanding of past climate conditions is essential for improving future projections, and doing so requires the integration of knowledge from multiple disciplines: meteorology, oceanography, climatology, paleoclimatology, geomorphology, glaciology, and climate modeling. Aimed at researchers and students interested in studying the climate of the past, present, and future, this volume offers an in-depth review of the scientific literature and presents cutting-edge interdisciplinary insights into the workings of the Earth's climate system. It is an essential resource for those seeking to understand and model the complexity of global climate with a comprehensive and inclusive view of phenomena acting at different temporal and spatial scales. The multidisciplinary approach of the topics covered in this book is completely innovative.

- Barbara Stenni, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia.

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'The central motivation of this book is to ensure that Southern Hemisphere palaeoclimate archives, ranging from geology to ice cores and coastal records, are fully incorporated into our understanding of the main modes of ocean and atmosphere-circulation and climate evolution. This is achieved through data assimilation and climate models, improving our understanding of future climate states, and underpinning assessments of their impacts. Ian Goodwin is one of very few scientists could knowledgably marshal expertise across such a wide range of disciplines. It is a must-have book for those seeking an in-depth process-based understanding of synoptic palaeoclimatology and our future climate.

- Dominic Hodgson, British Antarctic Survey.

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'A thorough, well-researched and referenced overview of synoptic climatology, starting with the history of climate understanding, through to contemporary global circulation and climatology, and the evidence and tools used to studying palaeoclimatology, with a view to using this to model future climatology and its impacts. A must for anyone seriously interested in understanding the drivers of our past, present and future climate.

- Andrew D. Short, University of Sydney.