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Ice Sheets and Climate
Oerlemans, Johannes; Veen, C. J. Van Der
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Description for Ice Sheets and Climate
Paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: RBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 377.
Climate modelling is a field in rapid development, and the fltudy of cryospheric processes has become an important part of it. On smaller time scales, the effect of snow cover and sea ice on the atmospheric circulation is of concern for long-range weather forecasting. Thinking in decades or centuries, the effect of a C02 climatic warming on the present-day ice sheets, and the resulting changes in global sea level, has drawn a lot of attention. In particular, the dynamics of marine ice sheets (ice sheets on a bed that would be below sea level after removal of ice and full ... Read more
Climate modelling is a field in rapid development, and the fltudy of cryospheric processes has become an important part of it. On smaller time scales, the effect of snow cover and sea ice on the atmospheric circulation is of concern for long-range weather forecasting. Thinking in decades or centuries, the effect of a C02 climatic warming on the present-day ice sheets, and the resulting changes in global sea level, has drawn a lot of attention. In particular, the dynamics of marine ice sheets (ice sheets on a bed that would be below sea level after removal of ice and full ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400963276
SKU
V9789400963276
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Reviews for Ice Sheets and Climate
`...Ice Sheets and Climate has no equal in demonstrating the critical relationship between glaciation and climatic change. I intend to make it my standard teaching text and I recommend it highly.' Elsevier's Earth Science Reviews