The Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change

by Richard Kelly, Olav Slaymaker, Richard E.J. Kelly, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140512976X
• ISBN13: 9781405129763
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.6"