US Southern Ocean JGOFS Program (AESOPS).
Author : Robert Frederick Anderson
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Page : 501 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Antarctic Ocean
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Author : Robert Frederick Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Antarctic Ocean
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Author : Robert Frederick Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biogeochemical cycles
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Author : Robert F. Anderson
Publisher :
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 41,27 MB
Release : 2001
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Author : Walker O. Smith
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Page : 4 pages
File Size : 32,27 MB
Release : 2003
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Author : Charles B. Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 2012-04-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1118223187
This new edition of Biological Oceanography has been greatly updated and expanded since its initial publication in 2004. It presents current understanding of ocean ecology emphasizing the character of marine organisms from viruses to fish and worms, together with their significance to their habitats and to each other. The book initially emphasizes pelagic organisms and processes, but benthos, hydrothermal vents, climate-change effects, and fisheries all receive attention. The chapter on oceanic biomes has been greatly expanded and a new chapter reviewing approaches to pelagic food webs has been added. Throughout, the book has been revised to account for recent advances in this rapidly changing field. The increased importance of molecular genetic data across the field is evident in most of the chapters. As with the previous edition, the book is primarily written for senior undergraduate and graduate students of ocean ecology and professional marine ecologists. Visit www.wiley.com/go/miller/oceanography to access the artwork from the book.
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Page : 140 pages
File Size : 10,34 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Chemical oceanography
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Page : 260 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Antarctica
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Author : Dan Lubin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540307850
The polar regions, perhaps more than any other places on Earth, give the geophysical scientist a sense of exploration. This sensibility is genuine, for not only is high-latitude ?eldwork arduous with many locations seldom or never visited, but there remains much fundamental knowledge yet to be discovered about how the polar regions interact with the global climate system. The range of opportunities for new discovery becomes strikingly clear when we realize that the high latitudes are not one region but are really two vastly di?erent worlds. The high Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land, and is home to fragile ecosystems and unique modes of human habitation. The Antarctic is a frozen continent without regular human habitation, covered by ice sheets taller than many mountain ranges and surrounded by the Earth’s most forbidding ocean. When we consider global change as applied to the Arctic, we discuss impacts to a region whose surface and lower atmospheric temperatures are near the triple point of water throughout much of the year. The most consistent signatures of climate warming have occurred at northern high latitudes (IPCC, 2001), and the potential impacts of a few degrees increase in surface temperature include a reduction in sea ice extent, a positive feedback to climate warming due to lowering of surface albedo, and changes to surface runo? that might a?ect the Arctic Ocean’s salinity and circulation.
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Chemical oceanography
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Antarctica
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"This document represents the final report of the United States Antarctic Program External Panel. The report has the unanimous approval of all 11 panel members and draws upon our collective experience which includes some 44 individual trips to Antarctica involving visits to all three U. S. stations, each research ship, support icebreakers and numerous field sites. As a panel, we visited McMurdo Station and South Pole Station and toured support facilities at Christchurch. We received approximately 70 briefings and conducted 80 “one-on-one” meetings with individuals involved in virtually all aspects of the Antarctic Program. Over 200 inputs were received in response to our request for “public comments". During visits to McMurdo and the Pole, the Panel conducted informal “Town Meetings” and was the beneficiary of numerous comments by members of those communities having first-hand experience in day-to-day operations. We are most appreciative of the candor and professionalism with which we were treated by all those with whom we came into contact, and in particular the members of the National Science Foundation who so expertly and constructively supported our efforts. We believe the U. S. Antarctic Program is well managed, involves high quality science and is important to the region as well as to the United States. We also believe that in the current budget environment, costs must be reduced, preferably through increased efficiency and “reinvention,” but, if not, through reduced scope. Recommendations are offered herein to help ensure the continued viability of the program into the 21st century."--