Arctic Climate Change The ACSYS Decade and Beyond /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Lemke, Peter (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Jacobi, Hans-Werner (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Σειρά: Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, 43
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Climatology.; Atmospheric sciences.; Physical geography.; Earth Sciences.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Physical Geography.

The Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on earth. Over the next 100 years, climate change is expected to accelerate, contributing to major physical, ecological, social, and economic changes, many of which have already begun. Changes in arctic climate will also...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword
• Chapter 1: The Origins of ACSYS
• Part 1. Observations
• Chapter 2: Advances in Arctic Atmospheric Research
• Chapter 3: Sea Ice Observation – Advances and Challenges
• Chapter 4: Observations in the Ocean
• Chapter 5: Observed Hydrological Cycle
• Chapter 6: Interaction with the Global Climate System
• Part 2. Modelling
• Chapter 7: Meso-scale Modelling of the Arctic Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Its Interaction with Sea Ice
• Chapter 8: Arctic Regional Climate Models
• Chapter 9: Progress in Hydrological Modelling over High Latitudes – under Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS)
• Chapter 10: Sea Ice – Ocean Models
• Chapter 11: Global Climate Models and 20th and 21st Century  Arctic Climate Change
• Chapter 12: ACSYS – A Scientific Foundation for the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project
• Index .