TY  - BOOK
AU  - Turner,J.
AU  - Marshall,Gareth
TI  - Climate change in the polar regions
SN  - 9780511975431 (ebook)
AV  - QC903.2.P73 T87 2011
U1  - 551.6911 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Polar regions
KW  - History
KW  - Meteorology
KW  - Observations
KW  - Sea ice
KW  - Global warming
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); 1. Introduction -- 2. Polar climate data and models -- 3. The high latitude climates and mechanisms of change -- 4. The last million years -- 5. The Holocene -- 6. The instrumental period -- 7. Predictions for the next 100 years -- 8. Summary and future research needs
N2  - The 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511975431
ER  -