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The Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change (Environmental Systems and Global Change Series)
The Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change - Environmental Systems and Global Change Series Author:Olav Slaymaker, Richard Kelly 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 ... more »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.« less