Brave New Arctic (eBook)

The Untold Story of the Melting North

Mark C. Serreze (Autor)

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2018
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-9025-5 (ISBN)

Infos

An insider account of how researchers unraveled the mystery of the thawing ArcticIn the 1990s, researchers in the Arctic noticed that floating summer sea ice had begun receding. This was accompanied by shifts in ocean circulation and unexpected changes in weather patterns throughout the world. The Arctic's perennially frozen ground, known as permafrost, was warming, and treeless tundra was being overtaken by shrubs. What was going on? Brave New Arctic is Mark Serreze's riveting firsthand account of how scientists from around the globe came together to find answers.In a sweeping tale of discovery spanning three decades, Serreze describes how puzzlement turned to concern and astonishment as researchers came to understand that the Arctic of old was quickly disappearing--with potentially devastating implications for the entire planet. Serreze is a world-renowned Arctic geographer and climatologist who has conducted fieldwork on ice caps, glaciers, sea ice, and tundra in the Canadian and Alaskan Arctic. In this must-read book, he blends invaluable insights from his own career with those of other pioneering scientists who, together, ushered in an exciting new age of Arctic exploration. Along the way, he accessibly describes the cutting-edge science that led to the alarming conclusion that the Arctic is rapidly thawing due to climate change, that humans are to blame, and that the global consequences are immense.A gripping scientific adventure story, Brave New Arctic shows how the Arctic's extraordinary transformation serves as a harbinger of things to come if we fail to meet the challenge posed by a warming Earth.

Autor

Mark C. Serreze is director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center, professor of geography, and a fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the coauthor of The Arctic Climate System. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.4.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Science Essentials
• Reihe/Serie: Science Essentials
• Zusatzinfo: 8 color + 33 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: Albedo • Antarctic • Antarctic Ice Sheet • Anticyclone • Arctic • Arctic dipole anomaly • Arctic Glacier • Arctic ocean • Arctic Oscillation • Atmosphere of Earth • Atmospheric circulation • Atmospheric pressure • Beaufort Gyre • Buoy • Carbon dioxide • Chukchi Sea • Climate • climate change • climate model • Climate oscillation • Climate Research (journal) • climatology • clockwise • Cloud Cover • cold front • Continental Shelf • cryosphere • Discharge (hydrology) • Dropsonde • earth • Ellesmere Island • Eurasian Basin • European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts • evaporation • exploration • Extreme weather • Fort Conger • Fram Strait • global cooling • global warming • Greenhouse Effect • Greenhouse Gas • Greenland Ice Sheet • Halocline • High-pressure Area • Iceberg • ice cap • ice sheet • Inflow (meteorology) • Instrumental temperature record • intergovernmental panel on climate change • International Arctic Science Committee • International Polar Year • IPCC Fourth Assessment Report • Low-pressure Area • Melt pond • meteorology • methane • microwave • Middle latitudes • Narcissism • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration • National Snow and Ice Data Center • North America • North Atlantic Oscillation • Northern Hemisphere • Nuclear-powered icebreaker • Numerical weather prediction • Oceanography • Pacific Ocean • Paleoclimatology • permafrost • Polar regions of Earth • precipitation • pressure gradient • Primary production • Radiative Forcing • Radiosonde • Remote Sensing • Retreat of glaciers since 1850 • Rossby wave • sea ice • sea level • Sea Level Rise • Sea Surface Temperature • Snow • Snowmelt • snowpack • Stratosphere • surface runoff • Temperature record • Time Series • tropics • Types of volcanic eruptions • Uncertainty • water cycle • water vapor • Weather • Weather forecasting • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-9025-X / 140089025X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-9025-5 / 9781400890255