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Threats to the arctic / Scott Elias.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elias, Scott, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental degradation--Arctic regions.
- Environmental degradation.
- Environmental conditions.
- Arctic regions--Environmental conditions.
- Arctic regions.
- Arctic Regions.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 581 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA, United States : Elsevier, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Threats to the Arctic
- Copyright
- Introduction
- Contents
- I
- Arctic Seas
- 1
- Loss of Sea Ice
- IMPORTANCE OF SEA ICE COVER
- Links Between Land and Sea
- Albedo
- Arctic climate system study
- Pack ice departure from the Arctic Basin
- THE EFFECTS OF THE ARCTIC OSCILLATION
- Historical Records from the Little Ice Age to World War II
- Changes in sea-ice cover since the 1950s
- Declines in multiyear sea ice
- Current rapid loss of sea ice
- Shrinking Ice Shelves
- PREDICTED LOSS OF SEA ICE WITH GLOBAL WARMING
- Sea Ice and Extreme Weather Events
- CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
- REFERENCES
- 2
- Rising Sea Surface Temperatures
- RISING SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES IN ARCTIC WATERS
- AMPLIFICATION OF TEMPERATURE RISES IN HIGH LATITUDES
- Influx of Warm Waters
- PREDICTED ARCTIC SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES FOR THE NEXT CENTURY
- CHANGES IN THE WATER COLUMN
- CHANGES IN OCEAN HEAT ENERGY
- THE BEAUFORT GYRE
- FURTHER READING
- 3
- Changes in Ocean Circulation Patterns
- INTRODUCTION
- Changes in the Beaufort Gyre
- Arctic Oscillation
- Effects of Ekman Transport and Pumping
- EKMAN TRANSPORT
- EDDIES AND SEA ICE
- The Warm Arctic-Cold Continents Pattern
- Freshwater Contributions from Glaciers and the Greenland Ice Sheet
- The Younger Dryas Model of North Atlantic Cooling
- Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
- Understanding stability thresholds
- Early warning signals?
- Predicted Changes to Pacific Waters in the Arctic
- CONCLUSIONS
- 4
- Sea Level Change
- Measuring Sea Level
- RECENT CHANGES IN THE GREENLAND ICE SHEET
- Mass Balance Changes
- Influence of fjords
- Connections between global sea level and the Greenland ice sheet
- Comparisons with the last interglacial period
- Tipping points
- The last interglacial
- The NEEM ice coring project
- Stable isotope studies
- Melting of the Eemian Greenland ice sheet
- Tipping point temperature thresholds
- The sea-ice threshold
- Summer of 2019
- Mechanisms of enhanced Greenland ice sheet surface melting
- Modeling sea-ice effects
- Greenland blocking index
- Complexities of glacial ice-ocean interactions
- The marine-glacial boundary
- FJORD DYNAMICS
- Global Ocean Warming and Sea Level Rise
- Thermal expansion of seawater
- Predicted sea level rise
- Conclusions
- Human impacts
- 5
- Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Arctic Marine Ecosystems
- SOURCE OF THE ACIDIFICATION PROBLEM
- History of CO2 Emissions
- CARBON BUDGETS OF ARCTIC WATERS
- THE PH OF OCEAN WATERS
- The Effects of Melting Sea Ice
- Future CO2 Level Predictions
- Notes:
- MINERAL SATURATION IN ARCTIC WATERS.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 13, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Elias, Scott Threats to the Arctic
- ISBN:
- 0128232293
- 9780128232293
- OCLC:
- 1257666331
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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