"I vividly remember coming up with the concept of an edited book on sea ice while attending the EASIZ Symposium at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven in June 1999. While there were several books available covering the physics of ice, or the biology and chemistry, there was no contemporary book that adequately tried to bring the various disciplines together in one forum. From its infancy the study of sea ice was underpinned by a multidisciplinary approach in the field and so the concept was to try to replicate the approach in a summary tome, where key facets of a research discipline could be explained"--
New edition of the leading resource on the Arctic and Southern Oceans with contributions from the world's experts on sea ice
Sea Ice delivers insights into the very latest understanding of sea ice dynamics, 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 climate.
This newly revised and updated Fourth Edition looks at ice-based food webs and at the impact on global geopolitics as well as changes in human activity in the Arctic.
Written by a team of more than 80 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.
