Author: Malcolm MellorPublisher: American Geophysical Union
ISBN: 0875901026
Category : Glaciers
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Antarctic Snow and Ice Studies
Author: Malcolm MellorPublisher: American Geophysical Union
ISBN: 0875901026
Category : Glaciers
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Anarctic Snow and Ice Studies
Author: Publisher: American Geophysical Union
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Antarctic Snow and Ice Studies [I]-II
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Author: Antarctic Snow and Ice Studies
Author: Malcolm MellorPublisher: Wiley-AGU
ISBN: 9781118658741
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Glaciology, now broadly defined as the study of ice in all forms, is often regarded as a some what esoteric subject, though it takes little thought to dispel the notion. The sheer quantity of ice on Earth, together with its past and present effects on geophysical processes and human activity, commands attention, while at the same time ice itself proves to be an ideal material for studying processes and properties that involve almost the entire field of classical physics. With the belated wedding of academic ice physics and glacier study, glaciology is contributing significantly to geophysics and materials science, as is evidenced by continued support for research both in the laboratory and in the field. Some 90 per cent of the world's ice is contained in the Antarctic ice sheet, a glacier of continental proportions about which little was known prior to the International Geophysical Year. Since 1957 the United States, by maintaining through the National Science Foundation a vigorous Antarctic glaciological program, has made an impressive contribution of knowledge which is reflected in part by the papers and references in this volume. By entering heartily into the spirit of international cooperation that has so brightened recent Antarctic endeavors, the U.S. has made a further contribution: to human understanding and to the diffusion of knowledge. This too is reflected here, for more than half of the authors came into the program from foreign countries. Much has been learned, but more remains to be studied, since, as research should, the investigations have raised new questions as fast as old ones were answered. Before efforts are renewed in force, however, there should be some assessment of the broad problems and of the methods available for their solution; in this respect the following collection of papers should be helpful. Glaciology, now broadly defined as the study of ice in all forms, is often regarded as a somewhat esoteric subject, though it takes little thought to dispel the notion. The sheer quantity of ice on Earth, together with its past and present effects on geophysical processes and human activity, commands attention, while at the same time ice itself proves to be an ideal material for studying processes and properties that involve almost the entire field of classical physics. With the belated wedding of academic ice physics and glacier study, glaciology is contributing significantly to geophysics and materials science, as is evidenced by continued support for research both in the laboratory and in the field.
Antarctic Snow and Ice Studies II.
Author: A. P. CraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Glaciers
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Polar Environments and Global Change
Author: Roger G. BarryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108423167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Surveys atmospheric, oceanic and cryospheric processes, present and past conditions, and changes in polar environments.
Antarctic Snow and Ice Studies
Author: Malcolm MellorPublisher: National Academies
ISBN:
Category : Glaciers
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Two-Mile Time Machine
Author: Richard B. AlleyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400852242
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. In The Two-Mile Time Machine, Alley tells the fascinating history of global climate changes as revealed by reading the annual rings of ice from cores drilled in Greenland. He explains that humans have experienced an unusually temperate climate compared to the wild fluctuations that characterized most of prehistory. He warns that our comfortable environment could come to an end in a matter of years and tells us what we need to know in order to understand and perhaps overcome climate changes in the future. In a new preface, the author weighs in on whether our understanding of global climate change has altered in the years since the book was first published, what the latest research tells us, and what he is working on next.
Author: W. Dansgaard
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