Recent climate variability in the vicinity of the Antarctic Peninsula
Author: J.C. KING
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Published: 1994
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Antarctic Peninsula Climate Variability
Author: Eugene Domack
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
Published: 2003-01-10
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Antarctic Research Series, Volume 79. The Antarctic Peninsula region represents our best natural laboratory to investigate how earth's major climate systems interact and how such systems respond to rapid regional warming. The scale of environmental changes now taking place across the region is large and their pace rapid but the subsystems involved are still small enough to observe and accurately document cause and affect mechanisms. For example, clarification of ice shelf stability via the Larsen Ice Shelf is vital to understanding the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet, its climate evolution, and its response to and control of sea level. By encompassing the broadest range of interdisciplinary studies, this volume provides the global change research and educational communities a framework in which to advance our knowledge of the causes behind regional warming, the dramatic glacial and ecological responses, and the potential uniqueness of the event within the region's paleoclimate record. The volume also serves as a vital resource for public policy and governmental funding agencies as well as a means to educate the large number of ecotourists that visit the region each austral summer.
Trends in Antarctic Terrestrial and Limnetic Ecosystems
Author: D.M. Bergstrom
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2007-06-04
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 1402052774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Antarctic provides a suite of scenarios useful for investigating the range of climate change effects on terrestrial and limnetic biota. The purpose of the book is to provide, based on the most up to date knowledge, a synthesis of the likely effects of climate change on Antarctic terrestrial and limnetic ecosystems and, thereby, to contribute to their management and conservation, based on the information.
Recent Climate Variability at the Antarctic Peninsula and Coastal Dronning Maud Land, Based on Stable Water Isotope Data
Author: Francisco Fernandoy
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 226
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKClimate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites
Author: David Greenland
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003-10-09
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 0190287837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series would present the work that has been done and the understanding and database that have been developed by work on climate change done at all the LTER sites. Global climate change is a central issue facing the world, which is being worked on by a very large number of scientists across a wide range of fields. The LTER sites hold some of the best available data measuring long term impacts and changes in the environment, and the research done at these sites has not previously been made widely available to the broader climate change research community. This book should appeal reasonably widely outside the ecological community, and because it pulls together information from all 20 research sites, it should capture the interest of virtually the entire LTER research community.
Climate Change in the Polar Regions
Author: John Turner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-05-12
Total Pages: 449
ISBN-13: 1107377099
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe polar regions have experienced some remarkable environmental changes in recent decades, such as the Antarctic ozone hole, the loss of large amounts of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean and major warming on the Antarctic Peninsula. The polar regions are also predicted to warm more than any other region on Earth over the next century if greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise. Yet trying to separate natural climate variability from anthropogenic factors still presents many problems. This book presents a thorough review of how the polar climates have changed over the last million years and sets recent changes within a long term perspective. The approach taken is highly cross-disciplinary and the close links between the atmosphere, ocean and ice at high latitudes are stressed. The volume will be invaluable for researchers and advanced students in polar science, climatology, global change, meteorology, oceanography and glaciology.
Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment
Author: John Turner
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780948277221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClimate and Sea Level Change
Author: R. A. Warrick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1993-02-18
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780521395168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn international team of experts address the questions of climate and sea level change.
Climate Variability and Change in High Elevation Regions: Past, Present & Future
Author: Henry F. Diaz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9401512523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGlaciers in the Andes are particularly important natural archives of present and past climatic and environmental changes, in significant part because of the N-S trend of this topographic barrier and its influence on the atmospheric circulation of the southern hemisphere. Strong gradients in the seasonality and amount of precipitation exist between the equator and 30° S. Large differences in amount east and west of the Andean divide also occur, as well as a change from tropical summer precipitation (additionally modified by the seasonal shift of the circulation belts) to winter precipitation in the west wind belt (e. g. , Yuille, 1999; Garraud and Aceituno, 2001). The so-called 'dry axis' lies between the tropical and extra tropical precipitation regimes (Figure 1). The high mountain desert within this axis responds most sensitively to the smallest changes in effective moisture. An important hydro-meteorological feature on a seasonal to inter-annual time-scale is the occurrence of EN SO events, which strongly control the mass balance of glaciers in this area (e. g. , Wagnon et ai. , 2001; Francou et ai. , in press). The precipitation pattern is an important factor for the interpretation of climatic and environmental records extracted from ice cores, because much of this information is related to conditions at the actual time of precipitation, and this is especially so for stable isotope records. Several ice cores have recently been drilled to bedrock in this area. From Huascanin (Thompson et ai. , 1995), Sajama (Thompson et ai.
Antarctic Sea Ice Variability in the Southern Ocean-Climate System
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 83
ISBN-13: 0309456002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe sea ice surrounding Antarctica has increased in extent and concentration from the late 1970s, when satellite-based measurements began, until 2015. Although this increasing trend is modest, it is surprising given the overall warming of the global climate and the region. Indeed, climate models, which incorporate our best understanding of the processes affecting the region, generally simulate a decrease in sea ice. Moreover, sea ice in the Arctic has exhibited pronounced declines over the same period, consistent with global climate model simulations. For these reasons, the behavior of Antarctic sea ice has presented a conundrum for global climate change science. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in January 2016, to bring together scientists with different sets of expertise and perspectives to further explore potential mechanisms driving the evolution of recent Antarctic sea ice variability and to discuss ways to advance understanding of Antarctic sea ice and its relationship to the broader ocean-climate system. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
