Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

期刊简介：Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology (PALO) publishes papers dealing with records of past environments, biota and climate. Understanding of the Earth system as it was in the past requires the employment of a wide range of approaches including marine and lacustrine sedimentology and speleothems; ice sheet formation and flow; stable isotope, trace element, and organic geochemistry; paleontology and molecular paleontology; evolutionary processes; mineralization in organisms; understanding tree-ring formation; seismic stratigraphy; physical, chemical, and biological oceanography; geochemical, climate and earth system modeling, and many others. The scope of this journal is regional to global, rather than local, and includes studies of any geologic age (Precambrian to Quaternary, including modern analogs). Within this framework, papers on the following topics are to be included: chronology, stratigraphy (where relevant to correlation of paleoceanographic events), paleoreconstructions, paleoceanographic modeling, paleocirculation (deep, intermediate, and shallow), paleoclimatology (e.g., paleowinds and cryosphere history), global sediment and geochemical cycles, anoxia, sea level changes and effects, relations between biotic evolution and paleoceanography, biotic crises, paleobiology (e.g., ecology of “microfossils” used in paleoceanography), techniques and approaches in paleoceanographic inferences, and modern paleoceanographic analogs, and quantitative and integrative analysis of coupled ocean-atmosphere-biosphere processes. Paleoceanographic and Paleoclimate studies enable us to use the past in order to gain information on possible future climatic and biotic developments: the past is the key to the future, just as much and maybe more than the present is the key to the past.

【译文】古海洋学和古气候学（PALO）发表关于过去环境、生物群和气候的论文。了解过去地球系统需要采用包括海洋和湖泊沉积学、洞穴石笋；冰盖形成和流动；稳定同位素、微量元素和有机地球化学；古生物学和分子古生物学；进化过程；生物体内的矿化；理解树木年轮的形成；地震地层学；物理、化学和生物海洋学；地球化学、气候和地球系统建模等多种方法。该期刊的范围是区域到全球，而不是局部的，包括任何地质年龄（前寒武纪到第四纪，包括现代类似物）的研究。在这个框架内，应包括以下主题的论文：年代学、地层学（与古海洋事件的相关性相关）、古重建、古海洋学建模、古环流（深层、中层和浅层）、古气候学（例如，古风和冰冻圈历史）、全球沉积物和地球化学循环、缺氧、海平面变化及其影响、生物进化与古海洋学的关系、生物危机、古生物学（例如，在古海洋学中使用的“微化石”的生态学）、古海洋学推断的技术和方法，以及现代古海洋学类似物，以及耦合海洋-大气-生物圈过程的定量和综合分析。古海洋学和古气候学研究使我们能够利用过去来获取有关可能未来的气候和生物发展的信息：过去是未来的关键，就像现在可能是过去的关键一样，甚至可能更多。