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Climate Governance in the Arctic
Springer 2010; US$ 139.99Climate change is affecting the Arctic environment and ecosystems at an accelerating speed, twice the rate of the global average. This is opening the Arctic to transportation and resource development and creating serious challenges for local communities and indigenous peoples. Climate Governance in the Arctic considers two aspects of climate change... more...
Marine Climate Change
Springer 2010; US$ 139.99Marine environmental conditions such as storms, storm surges and wave heigths are directly experienced by, for example, off-shore operations or coastal populations. The authors review and bring together the state-of-the-art and present day knowledge about historical changes, recent trends and concepts on how marine environmental conditions may change... more...
Arctic Doom, Arctic Boom: The Geopolitics of Climate Change in the Arctic
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 45.00An expert examination of the way climate change is transforming the Arctic environmentally, economically, and geopolitically, and how the challenges of that transformation should be met. more...
The Ferocious Summer
Greystone Books 2009; US$ 9.95Although it may seem barren, Antarctica is a vital ? and increasingly threatened ? part of the Earth's ecosystem. The Ferocious Summer is writer Meredith Hooper 's firsthand account of the effects of climate change on this frozen continent. For one summer, Hooper lived and worked with scientists observing the summer population of Adélie penguins... more...
Antarctic Climate Evolution
Elsevier Science 2008; US$ 160.00This is the first book dedicated to the developing knowledge on how the world's largest ice sheet formed and changed over its 34 million years history. In explaining the story of Antartica, information on terrestrial and marine geology, sedimentology, glacier geophysics (including airborne reconnaissance), shipborne geophysics, and numerical ice sheet... more...
International geophysics series
Elsevier Science 2007; US$ 82.95For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales. It will give students a good grasp of what the atmosphere and oceans look... more...
Ocean Weather Forecasting
Springer 2006; US$ 159.99The field of physical oceanography is conceivable to combine numerical models and observations via data assimilation in order to provide ocean prediction products on various spatial and time scales. This volume covers a range of topics and summarizes knowledge in ocean modeling, ocean observing systems, and data assimilation. more...
The Arctic Climate System
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 51.00This comprehensive, up-to-date assessment begins by outlining early Arctic exploration and the growth of modern research. Recent climate variability and trends, and projected future states are discussed in detail. The Arctic Climate System provides an overview of the subject for researchers and advanced students in a wide range of disciplines. more...
Polar Lows
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 64.00A high-level edited 2003 volume about the small, high-latitude weather systems known as polar lows. more...
Antarctic Meteorology and Climatology
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 76.00A comprehensive survey of the climatology and meteorology of Antarctica for atmospheric scientists, glaciologists, oceanographers and biologists. more...









