Sea Ice: An Introduction to its Physics, Chemistry, Biology and GeologyISBN: 978-0-632-05808-2
Hardcover
416 pages
June 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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Sea Ice provides a comprehensive review of our current
available knowledge of polar pack ice, the study of which is
severely constrained by the logistic difficulties of working in
such harsh and remote regions of the earth. The book’s
editors, Drs Thomas and Dieckmann have drawn together an impressive
group of international contributing authors, providing a
well-edited and integrated volume, which will stand for many years
as the standard work on the subject. Contents of the book include
details of the growth, microstructure and properties of sea ice,
large-scale variations in thickness and characteristics, its
primary production, micro-and macrobiology, sea ice as a habitat
for birds and mammals, sea ice biogeochemistry, particulate flux,
and the distribution and significance of palaeo sea ice.
Sea Ice is an essential purchase for oceanographers and
marine scientists, environmental scientists, biologists,
geochemists and geologists. All those involved in the study of
global climate change will find this book to contain a wealth of
important information. All libraries in universities and research
establishments where these subjects are studied and taught will
need multiple copies on their shelves.
David Thomas is at the School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor, UK.
Gerhard Dieckmann is at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany