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| View Larger Image | The Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change (Environmental Systems and Global Change Series)
by Olav Slaymaker, Richard Kelly
| | List Price: | $65.00 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 1285120 | | Studio: | Wiley-Blackwell | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 272 | | Publication Date: | January 29, 2007 | | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell |
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Product Description
This is the first textbook to consider all aspects of the cryosphere system in the context of global environmental change driven by human activity and climate.
- 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.
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