Variability of Air Temperature and Atmospheric Precipitation in the Arctic - Rajmund Przybylak

Variability of Air Temperature and Atmospheric Precipitation in the Arctic

Buch | Hardcover
332 Seiten
2002
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4020-0952-5 (ISBN)
160,49 inkl. MwSt
It has been known at least since the end of the century that the polar areas play a very important role in the formation of the Earth’s climates. It is also known today that they are the most sensitive regions to climatic change, and are thus perfect case studies for the detection of such changes. The most serious obstacle to the study of climatic and other geographical elements of the polar areas (including the Arctic) has always been the severe climatic conditions which prevail in these regions. Because of these extreme con- tions, research into particular elements of the climatic system (including the atmosphere) began here much later than it did in lower latitudes. For instance, the whole area of the Arctic was not sufficiently covered with a network of meteorological stations until the late 1940s (and even then there were large areas of the central Arctic and the Greenland interior for which no data were available). This is probably why it was not until the start of the 1990s that a body of work began to appear which analysed in any depth climatic variability for the Arctic as a whole. While a considerable number of papers had been p- lished before this period, most of them were local studies presenting highly localised information, providing air temperature measurements but often little else.

A Review of the Literature.- Data and Methods.- Variability in Atmospheric Circulation in the Arctic between 1939 and 1990.- Variability of Air Temperature.- Variability of Atmospheric Precipitation.- Scenarios of Thermal-Precipitation Conditions in a Warmer World.- Conclusions.- Variability of Air Temperature and Atmospheric Precipitation in the Arctic: An Update to 2000.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.10.2002
Reihe/Serie Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library ; 25
Übersetzer John Kearns
Zusatzinfo XVI, 332 p.
Verlagsort New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geologie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10 1-4020-0952-6 / 1402009526
ISBN-13 978-1-4020-0952-5 / 9781402009525
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