Screen LibraryArctic Ice Shelves and Ice Islands /
This book provides an overview of the current state of knowledge of Arctic ice shelves, ice islands and related features. Ice shelves are permanent areas of ice which float on the ocean surface while attached to the coast, and typically occur in very cold environments where perennial sea ice builds...
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Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Dordrecht : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Polar Sciences,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1101-0 |
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This book provides an overview of the current state of knowledge of Arctic ice shelves, ice islands and related features. Ice shelves are permanent areas of ice which float on the ocean surface while attached to the coast, and typically occur in very cold environments where perennial sea ice builds up to great thickness, and/or where glaciers flow off the land and are preserved on the ocean surface. These landscape features are relatively poorly studied in the Arctic, yet they are potentially highly sensitive indicators of climate change because they respond to changes in atmospheric, oceani |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(XII,422pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9789402411010 |
| Index Number: | G575 |
| CLC: | K919 |
| Contents: | Part 1. Distribution and Characteristics of Arctic Ice Shelves -- Chapter 1. Arctic Ice Shelves: an Introduction (Julian A. Dowdeswell) -- Chapter 2. The Ellesmere ice shelves, Nunavut, Canada (Martin O. Jeffries) -- Chapter 3. Eurasian Arctic Ice Shelves and Tidewater Ice Margins (Julian A. Dowdeswell) -- Chapter 4. Greenland Ice Shelves and Ice Tongues (Niels Reeh) -- Part 2. Physical Processes and Historical Changes of Arctic Ice Shelves -- Chapter 5. Changes in Canadian Arctic Ice Shelf Extent Since 1906 (Derek Mueller) -- Chapter 6. The Surface Mass Balance of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf an |