International Research in the Antarctic

by Richard Fifield

This account offers an accessible and informative look at advancing scientific discoveries in Antarctica, the last great unexplored continent. Reports by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) have been adapted for the nonspecialist, and cover such diverse topics as solar wind, plasma physics, radio research, ocean circulation and mixing, glaciation, climate history, weather phenomena, the survival of life forms at low temperature,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019854216X
• ISBN13: 9780198542162
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.8" x 10.0"