Arctic Climate Change
Arctic Climate Change

Author: Peter Lemke

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-11-22

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 9400720270

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The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on earth. Over the next 100 years, climate change is expected to accelerate, contributing to major physical, ecological, social, and economic changes, many of which have already begun. Changes in arctic climate will also affect the rest of the world through increased global warming and rising sea levels. The volume addresses the following major topics: - Research results in observing aspects of the Arctic climate system and its processes across a range of time and space scales - Representation of cryospheric, atmospheric, and oceanic processes in models, including simulation of their interaction with coupled models - Our understanding of the role of the Arctic in the global climate system, its response to large-scale climate variations, and the processes involved.

The Nordic Seas
The Nordic Seas

Author: Helge Drange

Publisher: American Geophysical Union

Published: 2005-01-14

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 0875904238

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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 158. The world's largest positive temperature deviation from zonal mean temperatures lies within the realm of the Nordic Seas, comprising bodies of water variously referred to as the Norwegian Sea, the Iceland Sea, and the Greenland Sea. Its role as a mixing cauldron for waters entering from the North Atlantic and the Arctic Oceans, and its function as a major source of deep and abyss water, make our understanding of the Nordic Seas a crucial element in advancing the knowledge of climate dynamics in the Northern Hemisphere. In this context, its small extent (covering only 0.75% of the area of the world's oceans) and its unique location, which allows for accessibility and detailed exploration, are of special significance. The current book speaks to that significance specifically and also to assessing the region's present and future response to, and influence on, global climate change. It is the first such work since B. G. Hurdle's groundbreaking The Nordic Seas (published in 1986).

100 Years of Science Under ICES
100 Years of Science Under ICES

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Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13:

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The symposium was hosted by the Finnish Institute of Marine Research (FIMR) and was co-sponsored by FIMR, the Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, the Nordic Council, the Norwegian Research Council, the International Whaling Commission, the US National Science Foundation, and the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Conservation Organizationo.

Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin
Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin

Author: BACC Author Team

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2008-01-22

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 3540727868

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This book offers an up-to-date overview of the latest scientific findings in regional climate research on the Baltic Sea basin. This includes climate changes in the recent past, climate projections up until 2100 using the most sophisticated regional climate models available, and an assessment of climate change impacts on terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. The authors demonstrate that the regional climate has already started to change, and will continue to do so.