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Icebergs: Their Science and Links to Global Change
Grant R. Bigg
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Description for Icebergs: Their Science and Links to Global Change
hardcover. Gives a comprehensive view of icebergs and their interaction with the ocean and climate, from a multidisciplinary perspective. Num Pages: 276 pages, 69 b/w illus. 28 maps 4 tables. BIC Classification: RBKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 174. .
Icebergs are a prime example of an environmental phenomenon that brings together multiple disciplines in the polar sciences, from the physics of calving and melting to the geology of their solid deposits and sea floor interactions. Icebergs are also increasingly seen to play key roles in past and present climate change. This book gives a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of icebergs and their interaction with the Earth system, from the physical and biological interaction with the ocean and climate, to how iceberg detritus informs us about past Earth history. Societal and cultural aspects of icebergs are also examined, in terms of ... Read more
Icebergs are a prime example of an environmental phenomenon that brings together multiple disciplines in the polar sciences, from the physics of calving and melting to the geology of their solid deposits and sea floor interactions. Icebergs are also increasingly seen to play key roles in past and present climate change. This book gives a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of icebergs and their interaction with the Earth system, from the physical and biological interaction with the ocean and climate, to how iceberg detritus informs us about past Earth history. Societal and cultural aspects of icebergs are also examined, in terms of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
657g
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107067097
SKU
V9781107067097
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-14
About Grant R. Bigg
Grant R. Bigg is Professor of Earth System Science in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield, and prior to this was Head of the Department of Geography at the same university. He won the Gordon Manley Weather Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society in 2004. Professor Bigg has published over 120 peer-reviewed papers, and is the author ... Read more
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