Sea Ice delivers insights into the very latest understanding of how sea ice is formed, how we measure (and model) its extent, the ecosystems that depend on sea ice, and the effect of climate change on its distribution. The book also discusses how sea ice influences the oceanography of underlying waters and the influence that sea ice has on the world's overall climate.
This newly revised and updated Fourth Edition looks at ice-based food webs and at the impact of geopolitics on arctic ecology as well as the increase in human activity in the arctic due to receding ice caps, from shipping to resource extraction and tourism.
Written by a team of more than 50 of the world's leading experts, Sea Ice includes information on: - Sea ice thickness distribution and snow and surface processes on sea ice - The short-term and long-term dynamics of Arctic versus Antarctic Sea ice - Current methods of satellite remote sensing of sea ice - The ecology of sea ice, from microbes to mammals to marine birds - The cycling of contaminants across the ocean-sea ice-atmosphere interface
In its new edition, Sea Ice remains the leading multidisciplinary resource on the subject for all policy makers, researchers, and students with an interest in the polar regions and their role in the world's oceanic systems.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Sea Ice Thickness Distribution
Chapter 2 Snow and Surface Processes on Sea Ice
Chapter 3 Sea Ice and Sunlight
Chapter 4 Sea Ice from an Engineer�s Perspective
Chapter 5 Methods of Satellite Remote Sensing of Sea Ice
Chapter 6 The Rise and Fall of Antarctic Sea Ice
Chapter 7 The Fitful Decline of Arctic Sea Ice
Chapter 8 Oceanography and Sea Ice of the Arctic Ocean
Chapter 9 Oceanography and Sea Ice of the Southern Ocean
Chapter 10 Sea Ice in Earth System models
Chapter 11 A Compendium of Sea Ice Microbes
Chapter 12 Primary Production Associated with Sea Ice
Chapter 13 Sea Ice Foodwebs and Cryopelagic Interactions
Chapter 14 Arctic and Antarctic Marine Mammals and Sea Ice
Chapter 15 Sea Ice: A Seabird World of Its Own
Chapter 16 Nutrients and Organic Matter Dynamics in Sea Ice
Chapter 17 Gase and Sea Ice
Chapter 18 Sea Ice, Aerosols and Clouds
Chatper 19 Cycling of Contaminants Across the Ocean-Sea Ice-Atmosphere Interface
Chapter 20 Numerical Models of Sea Ice Biogeochemistry
Chapter 21 Palaeo Sea Ice Reconstruction: Ancient Warm Periods
Chapter 23 Ice in Subarctic Seas
Chapter 23 Multigenerational Connections and Perspectives of Alaska�s Sea Ice
Chapter 24 The Geopolitics of Sea Ice
