Roger G. Barry (University of Colorado Boulder), Thian Yew Gan (University of Alberta)

Broschiertes Buch

The Global Cryosphere

Past, Present, and Future

Beschreibung

A comprehensive account of all components of the Earth's cryosphere, including snow cover, glaciers, ice sheets, lake and river ice, permafrost, sea ice, ice shelves and icebergs. This textbook covers the global cryosphere's past history and projected future states, and discusses the models developed to understand cryospheric processes.

Autor

Roger G. Barry was Director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1977 to 2008, and Professor of Geography from 1968 to 2010. He was appointed a University of Colorado Distinguished Professor in 2004. From 2012 to 2014 he was Director of the International CLIVAR Project Office, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK. He was a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and his awards included the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, the Nobel Peace Prize (as part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change team), a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, a Humboldt Prize Fellow, and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Environmental Sciences (RAEN). Roger passed away peacefully in Boulder, Colorado in March, 2018.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 586
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 189mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1372g
• ISBN-13: 9781108720588
• ISBN-10: 1108720587
• Artikelnr.: 61262365