Understanding Present and Past Arctic Environments

An Integrated Approach from Climate Change Perspectives

Neloy Khare

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780128228692
• eBook ISBN: 9780128230787
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science
• Index: Biological Sciences

Understanding Present and Past Arctic Environments: An Integrated Approach from Climate Change Perspectives provides a fully comprehensive overview of the past, present and future outlook for this incredibly diverse and important region. Through a series of contributed chapters, the book explores changes to this environment that are attributed to the effects of climate change. The book explores the current effects climate change has had on Arctic environments and ecosystems, our current understanding of the effects climate change is having, the effects climate change is having on the atmospheric and ocean processes in this region. The Arctic region is predicted to experience the earliest and most pronounced global warming response to human-induced climatic change, thus a better understanding is vital. - Presents a thorough understanding of the Arctic, it's past, present and future - Provides an integrated assessment of the Arctic climate system, recognizing that a true understanding of its functions lies in appreciating the interactions and linkages among its various components - Brings together many of the world's leading Arctic researchers to describe this diverse environment and its ecology

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Understanding Present and Past Arctic Environments
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of contributors
• About the editor
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Climate change over the Arctic: impacts and assessment
• 2 India’s scientific endeavors in the Arctic with special reference to climate change: the past decade and future perspectives
• 3 Lakes and fjords of Polar regions—potential indicators of climate change
• 4 Deciphering the changing climate and environment around Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, since the Last Glacial Maximum: a multiprox...
• 5 Ocean circulation in high northern latitudes and its influence on Arctic climate through the ages
• 6 Teleconnection between Arctic climate and tropical Indian monsoon during the Holocene
• 7 Late Quaternary climatic imprints on clastic sediments of Broggerbreen peninsula, Ny-Ålesund region, Svalbard
• 8 Reconstruction of Quaternary climate in Svalbard: CRN as proxy
• 9 Ultraviolet radiation–protecting pigments in plants growing at Arctic region
• 10 Cyanobacteria in the polar regions: diversity, adaptation, and taxonomic problems
• 11 Arctic biodiversity amidst looming climate apocalypse: current status and way forward
• 12 Mass balance and spatio-temporal change in the area of Vestre Broggerbreen glacier, Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, Arctic, betwee...
• 13 Spatiotemporal variability of snowmelt onset across Svalbard inferred from scatterometer data (2000–2017)
• 14 Arctic sea ice variability and trends in the last four decades: role of ocean-atmospheric forcing
• 15 Space Weather Phenomenon of Polar Ionosphere Over the Arctic Region
• 16 Optical properties of brown carbon in aerosols and surface snow at Ny-Ålesund during the polar summer
• 17 Measurements of carbon monoxide at Polar regions
• 18 Spatial and temporal variability of physical parameter around Ny-Alesund region of Arctic
• 19 Geopolitical and geoeconomic implications of climate change in the Arctic region: the future of contestation and cooperatio
• 20 Glacial mass change–induced earthquakes in the Himalayan region of South Asia and its bearing to understand Arctic glaci...
• Glossary
• Index
• Back Cover