John Turner, Gareth J. Marshall

Gebundenes Buch

Climate Change in the Polar Regions

Beschreibung

Comprehensive, up-to-date account of polar climate change over the last one million years for researchers and advanced students in polar science.

Autor

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. He has had a long involvement with the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR): he was the Chief Officer of the Physical Sciences Standing Scientific Group from 2002 to 2006 and chaired the steering committee of the SCAR programme on Antarctica and the Global Climate System from 2005 to 2008. He is the co-author of Antarctic Meteorology and Climatology (1997) and Polar Lows: Mesoscale Weather Systems in the Polar Regions (2003), both of which are published by Cambridge University Press. He was awarded the International Journal of Climatology Prize of the Royal Meteorological Society in 2005.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 450
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 950g
• ISBN-13: 9780521850100
• ISBN-10: 052185010X
• Artikelnr.: 31767726