Keywords:
Climatic changes--Environmental aspects--Arctic regions.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (279 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118671580
Series Statement:
Geophysical Monograph Series ; v.180
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1207776
DDC:
551.34/3091632
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Arctic Sea Ice Decline: Introduction -- Section I: Arctic Sea Ice in the Instrumented and Paleo-Proxy Records -- Recent Trends in Arctic Sea Ice and the Evolving Role of Atmospheric Circulation Forcing, 1979-2007 -- Reconstructing Sea Ice Conditions in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Prior to Human Observations -- Section II: Factors in Sea Ice Sensitivity -- Arctic Cloud Properties and Radiative Forcing From Observations and Their Role in Sea Ice Decline Predicted by the NCAR CCSM3 Model During the 21st Century -- Some Aspects of Uncertainty in Predicting Sea Ice Thinning -- Sensitivity of Arctic Sea Ice Thickness to Intermodel Variations in the Surface Energy Budget -- The Atmospheric Response to Realistic Reduced Summer Arctic Sea Ice Anomalies -- Section III: Rapid Loss Versus Abrupt Transition -- Sea Ice-Albedo Feedback and Nonlinear Arctic Climate Change -- The Role of Natural Versus Forced Change in Future Rapid Summer Arctic Ice Loss -- Multiple Equilibria and Abrupt Transitions in Arctic Summer Sea Ice Extent -- What Is the Trajectory of Arctic Sea Ice? -- Analysis of Arctic Sea Ice Anomalies in a Coupled Model Control Simulation -- Section IV: The Threat to Polar Bears From Sea Ice Decline -- A Bayesian Network Modeling Approach to Forecasting the 21st Century Worldwide Status of Polar Bears -- Index.
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