Influence of climate change on the changing Arctic and sub-Arctic conditions: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Influence of Climate Change on the Changing Arctic and Sub-Arctic Conditions Liège, Belgium, 8-10 May 2008

The current warming trends in the Arctic may shove the Arctic system into a seasonally ice-free state not seen for more than one million years. The meltingis accelerating, and researchers were unable to identify natural processes that might slow the deicing of the Arctic. Such substantial additional melting of Arctic and Antarctic glaciers and ice sheets would raise the sea level worldwide, flooding the coastal areas where many of the world’s population lives. Studies, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Arizona, show that greenhouse gas increases over the next century could warm the Arctic by 3-5°C in summertime. Thus, Arctic summers by 2100 may be as warm as they were nearly 130,000 years ago, when sea levels eventually rose up to 6 m higher than today. First book to address the Arctic and Sub-Arctic environmental and geo-economic conditions including the effects of global warming on ecosystems and populations with a prospective view of the evolution of the Arctic Sub-Arctic system INDICE: From the contents Preface.- Global Warming Effects on the Arctic and Subarctic Seas.- The Case for Global Warming in the Arctic.- A Coherency between the North Atlantic Temperature Nonlinear Trend, the Eastern Arctic Ice Extent Drift and Change in the Atmospheric Circulation Regimes of the Northern Eurasia.- Mesoscale Atmospheric Vortices in the Okhotsk and Bering Seas: Results of Satellite Multisensor Study.- Recent Sea Ice Ecosystem in the Arctic Ocean: a Review.- The Effects of Irradiance and Nutrient Supply on the Productivity of Arctic Waters: a Perspective on Climate Change.- Production of Phytoplankton in the Arctic Seas and its Response on Recent Warming.- Reconstruction ofOceanic Circulation Using Mineralogical and Isotopical (Nd/Pb) Signatures of Deep Sea Sediments: The Case Study of the Northern Atlantic and Some Perspectives for the Arctic.- Observing and Interpreting the Seasonal Variability of the Oceanographic Fluxes Passing through Lancaster Sound of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9458-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 270
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés