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The polar regions have experienced some remarkable environmental changes in recent decades, such as the Antarctic ozone hole, the loss of large amounts of sea ice from the Arctic Ocean and major warming on the Antarctic Peninsula. The polar regions are also predicted to warm more than any other region on Earth over the next century if greenhouse gas concentrations continue to rise. Yet trying to separate natural climate variability from anthropogenic factors still presents many problems.
This book presents a thorough review of how the polar climates have changed over the last million years and sets recent changes within a long term perspective. The approach taken is highly cross-disciplinary and the close links between the atmosphere, ocean and ice at high latitudes are stressed.
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Polar climate data and models
3. The high latitude climates and mechanisms of change
4. The last million years
5. The Holocene
6. The instrumental period
7. Predictions for the next 100 years
8. Summary and future research needs
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John Turner is a research scientist at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, UK where he leads a project investigating recent Antarctic climate change and how it may change over the next century.
Gareth Marshall is a climatologist at the British Antarctic Survey where he is the climate programme coordinator.
By: John Turner and Gareth J Marshall
434 pages, 188 b/w photo, illustrations and maps; 9 tables
Both authors have extensive experience of the Antarctic regions from the course of their work for the British Antarctic Survey, and this experience and knowledge is clearly present in the book.
- IEA Greenhouse Gas Programme