The Global Cryosphere: Past, Present and Future
Roger Barry, Thian Yew Gan
This is the first textbook to address all the components of the Earth's cryosphere - all forms of snow and ice, both terrestrial and marine. It provides a concise but comprehensive summary of snow cover, glaciers, ice sheets, lake and river ice, permafrost, sea ice and icebergs - their past history and projected future state. It is designed for courses at upper undergraduate and graduate level in environmental science, geography, geology, glaciology, hydrology, water resource engineering and ocean sciences. It also provides a superb up-to-date summary for researchers of the cryosphere. The book includes an extensive bibliography, numerous figures and color plates, thematic boxes on selected topics and a glossary. The book builds on courses taught by the authors for many decades at the University of Colorado and the University of Alberta. Whilst there are many existing texts on individual components of the cryosphere, no other textbook covers the whole cryosphere.
سب زمرہ:
سال:
2011
اشاعت:
1
ناشر کتب:
Cambridge University Press
زبان:
english
صفحات:
489
ISBN 10:
0521769817
ISBN 13:
9780521769815
فائل:
PDF, 12.93 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011