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Vanishing Ice – Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Rising Seas

Autor Vivien Gornitz
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 iun 2019
The Arctic is thawing. In summer, cruise ships sail through the once ice-clogged Northwest Passage, lakes form on top of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and polar bears swim farther and farther in search of waning ice floes. At the opposite end of the world, floating Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking. Mountain glaciers are in retreat worldwide, unleashing flash floods and avalanches. We are on thin ice--and with melting permafrost's potential to let loose still more greenhouse gases, these changes may be just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231168243
ISBN-10: 0231168241
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 171 x 239 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press

Notă biografică

Vivien Gornitz is a geologist and special research scientist with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research, and has served as an adjunct professor at Barnard.

She earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University in Geology/Mineralogy/Geochemistry and her B.A. from Barnard College in Chemistry.

Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Whither the Snows of Yesteryear?
2. Ice Afloat¿Ice Shelves, Icebergs, and Sea Ice
3. Impermanent Permafrost
4. Darkening Mountains¿Disappearing Glaciers
5. The Greenland Ice Sheet
6. Antarctica: The Giant Ice Locker
7. From Greenhouse to Icehouse
8. Return to the Greenhouse
9. The Importance of Ice
Appendix A. Anticipating Future Climate Change
Appendix B. Eyes in the Sky¿Monitoring the Cryosphere from Above
Appendix C. Geologic Time Scale
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index