The Cryosphere and Global Environmental ChangeISBN: 978-1-4051-2976-3
Paperback
280 pages
December 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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- Considers all six aspects of the cryosphere – ice sheets,
glacier ice, permafrost, river and lake ice, sea ice and snow
– in the context of global environmental change driven by
human activity and climate.
- Describes a new concept of cryosphere transience and landscape
transition which links climate, hydrology, ecology and
geomorphology.
- Looks at the evidence, process, and patterns of cryosphere
change, on local and global scales.
- Provides a wealth of data to inform the current global environmental change debate.