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CHAPTER 2 • Climate Archives, Data, and Models 39
Review Questions 8. Why aren’t models of the atmosphere and ocean
allowed to interact continuously?
1. Why does the importance of different climate 9. Describe two features that make the ocean useful
archives change for different time scales?
in geochemical mass balance models.
2. Why are ocean sediments and ice cores important
archives of climate?
3. How does the method of dating climate records Additional Resources
vary with the type of archive?
Basic Reading
4. How does the resolution from http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/softlib.html.
sedimentary archives vary with depositional Maintained by the World Data Center for
environment? Paleoclimatology in Boulder, Colorado. Contains
5. Which two major groups of organisms are most climate data of all kinds, as well as the locations of
important to climate reconstructions over the past all sites that contain each type of data.
several million years?
Advanced Reading
6. Describe how the products derived from
physical and chemical weathering provide Bradley, R. S. 1998. Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing
Climates of the Quaternary. International Geophysics
different kinds of information about the climate Series, vol. 64. San Diego: Harcourt Academic
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Press.
7. Describe two ways the performance of climate Hecht, A. D., ed. 1985. Paleoclimate Analysis and
models is evaluated. Modeling. New York: John Wiley.
