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Author Dowdeswell, J. A

Title Arctic and Environmental Change
Published Boca Raton : Routledge, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (206 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Modelling Arctic climate change; Variability in atmospheric circulation and moisture flux over the Arctic; The stratospheric polar vortex and sub-vortex: fluid dynamics and mid-latitude ozone loss; Ozone loss in middle latitudes and the role of the Arctic polar vortex; Solar irradiance, air pollution and temperature changes in the Arctic; Arctic terrestrial ecosystems and environmental change; Climate change and biological oceanography of the Arctic Ocean
The thermohaline circulation of the Arctic Ocean and the Greenland SeaArctic sea ice extent and thickness; Glaciers in the High Arctic and recent environmental change; Elevation change of the Greenland Ice Sheet and its measurement with satellite radar altimetry; Permafrost and climate change: geotechnical implications; Greenland ice core records and rapid climate change; Non-steady behaviour in the Cenozoic polar North Atlantic system: the onset and variability of Northern Hemisphere glaciations; Index
Notes Print version record
Form Electronic book
Author Dowdeswell, J. A
Schofield, A. M
ISBN 9781351465656
1351465651