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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: History of the International Polar Years (IPYs)
  name:
    name part: Barr, Susan.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Luedecke, Cornelia.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 320 p. 98 illus., 36 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Although international scientific cooperation - particularly in meteorology - was established previous to the first International Polar Year, the IPY-1 (1882-83) is considered to be the first revolutionary step towards an extensive international cooperation in the polar areas for the benefit of science rather than national prestige and territorial gain. This was followed by IPY-2 (1932-33) and IPY-3 - actually the International Geophysical Year (1957-58) - before the crowning effort of IPY-4 (2007-08). The history of these years is recounted here and explains the political, economic, technical and scientific conditions and expectations that laid the basis for each IPY and which gradually expanded both the scope and extent of our understanding of the complexities in polar regions.
  table of contents: The First Three Polar Years – A General Overview -- The International Polar Year 1882–1883 -- The Expeditions of the First International Polar Year -- An Evaluation of the Achievements of the First International Polar Year -- International Cooperation in Antarctica 1901–1904 -- The Second International Polar Year 1932–1933 -- Some IPY-2 Histories -- Achievements of the Second International Polar Year -- Origins of the International Geophysical Year -- The IPY-3: The International Geophysical Year (1957–1958) -- The Achievements of the IGY -- Side-Effects and Traces of the Early IPYs -- International Meteorological and Magnetic Co-operations in Polar Regions -- Why Do We Have a 4th IPY?.
  note: edited by Susan Barr, Cornelia Luedecke.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Oceanography
  subject:
    topic: Geophysics/Geodesy
  classification: GC1-1581
  classification: 551.46
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
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  identifier: 9783642124020
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12402-0
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    record creation date: 100907
    record change date: 20151125193044.0
    record identifier: 978-3-642-12402-0