Overview
- First dedicated book on Arctic Ice Shelves and Ice Islands
- Most up-to-date knowledge of the distribution and characteristics of Arctic ice shelves
- Comprehensive review of the processes controlling recent Arctic ice shelf losses
- Review of historical and Cold War uses of ice islands
Part of the book series: Springer Polar Sciences (SPPS)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Distribution and Characteristics of Arctic Ice Shelves
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Physical Processes and Historical Changes of Arctic Ice Shelves
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Arctic Ice Shelf Calving Processes and Ice Islands
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About this book
This book provides an overview of the current state of knowledge of Arctic ice shelves, ice islands and related features. Ice shelves are permanent areas of ice which float on the ocean surface while attached to the coast, and typically occur in very cold environments where perennial sea ice builds up to great thickness, and/or where glaciers flow off the land and are preserved on the ocean surface. These landscape features are relatively poorly studied in the Arctic, yet they are potentially highly sensitive indicators of climate change because they respond to changes in atmospheric, oceanic and glaciological conditions. Recent fracturing and breakup events of ice shelves in the Canadian High Arctic have attracted significant scientific and public attention, and produced large ice islands which may pose a risk to Arctic shipping and offshore infrastructure. Much has been published about Antarctic ice shelves, but to date there has not been a dedicated book about Arctic ice shelvesor ice islands. This book fills that gap.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Derek Mueller is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. He has conducted research on the Ellesmere Island ice shelves since 2001, first on their biology during his doctoral studies, and then on their disintegration using remote sensing, climate and field observations. He continues to do field work at Canada's northernmost coast where he is focused on ice-ocean interactions. He also examines the drift and deterioration of ice islands and icebergs in the Arctic and along the East Coast of Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Arctic Ice Shelves and Ice Islands
Editors: Luke Copland, Derek Mueller
Series Title: Springer Polar Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1101-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1099-0Published: 08 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1488-2Published: 22 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1101-0Published: 30 May 2017
Series ISSN: 2510-0475
Series E-ISSN: 2510-0483
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 422
Number of Illustrations: 64 b/w illustrations, 77 illustrations in colour
Topics: Polar Geography, Geophysics and Environmental Physics, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Nature Conservation, Earth Sciences, general