Polar Remote Sensing
Polar Remote Sensing

Author: Dan Lubin

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-08-31

Total Pages: 868

ISBN-13: 3540307850

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The polar regions, perhaps more than any other places on Earth, give the geophysical scientist a sense of exploration. This sensibility is genuine, for not only is high-latitude ?eldwork arduous with many locations seldom or never visited, but there remains much fundamental knowledge yet to be discovered about how the polar regions interact with the global climate system. The range of opportunities for new discovery becomes strikingly clear when we realize that the high latitudes are not one region but are really two vastly di?erent worlds. The high Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, and is home to fragile ecosystems and unique modes of human habitation. The Antarctic is a frozen continent without regular human habitation, covered by ice sheets taller than many mountain ranges and surrounded by the Earth’s most forbidding ocean. When we consider global change as applied to the Arctic, we discuss impacts to a region whose surface and lower atmospheric temperatures are near the triple point of water throughout much of the year. The most consistent signatures of climate warming have occurred at northern high latitudes (IPCC, 2001), and the potential impacts of a few degrees increase in surface temperature include a reduction in sea ice extent, a positive feedback to climate warming due to lowering of surface albedo, and changes to surface runo? that might a?ect the Arctic Ocean’s salinity and circulation.

The 85th AMS Annual Meeting
The 85th AMS Annual Meeting

Author: American Meteorological Society. Meeting

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Searchable database of the following AMS meetings: 14th Symp on Education ; 16th Conference on Climate Variability and Change ; 16th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification ; 19th Conf on Hydrology ; 21st International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology ; 2nd Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications ; 2nd Symposium on Space Weather ; 4th Communications Workshop - Science and the Media: Can We Improve the Communication of Science via the Mass Media ; 7th Conf. on Atmospheric Chemistry ; 8th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography ; AMS Forum: Living in the Coastal Zone ; AMS Forum: Living with a Limited Water Supply ; Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data ; Eighth Annual Atmospheric Science Librarians International (ASLI) Conference ; Fourth AMS Student Conference ; Fourth AMS Student Conference ; Fourth AMS WeatherFest ; Fourth Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to Environmental Science ; GOES-R/NPOESS Symposium ; Heat and Health: Reducing Impacts ; IMPACT: Weather 2004 ; Ninth Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) ; Sixth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes ; Special Session for Retaining and Recruiting Minorities in Atmospheric Science ; The Ed Lorenz Symposium ; The Suki Manabe Symposium ; Third Annual Users Conference ; Third Presidential History Symposium. Site includes PDFs and WebEx presentations.