On sea ice / by W.F. Weeks; with W.D. Hibler III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weeks, W. F.

Contributor:

Hibler, W. D., III

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sea ice.

Ice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (682 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Covering more than seven percent of the earth's surface, sea ice is crucial to the functioning of the biosphere-and is a key component in our attempts to understand and combat climate change. With On Sea Ice, geophysicist W.F. Weeks delivers a natural history of sea ice, a fully comprehensive and up-to-date account of our knowledge of its creation, change, and function. The volume begins with the earliest recorded observations of sea ice, from 350 BC, but the majority of its information is drawn from the period after 1950, when detailed study of sea ice became widespread. Weeks de.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Historical background

3. The ocean setting

4. An introduction to sea ice growth

5. Components

6. The phase diagram

7. Sea ice structure

8. Sea ice salinity

9. Sea ice growth: the details

10. Properties

11. Polynyas and leads

12. Deformation

13. Sea ice: seafloor interactions

14. Marginal ice zone

15. Snow

16. Ice dynamics

17. Underwater ice

18. Trends

19. Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-60223-101-X

OCLC:

643302511