Download or read book Arctic Ice Shelves and Ice Islands written by Luke Copland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of the current state of knowledge of Arctic ice shelves, ice islands and related features. Ice shelves are permanent areas of ice which float on the ocean surface while attached to the coast, and typically occur in very cold environments where perennial sea ice builds up to great thickness, and/or where glaciers flow off the land and are preserved on the ocean surface. These landscape features are relatively poorly studied in the Arctic, yet they are potentially highly sensitive indicators of climate change because they respond to changes in atmospheric, oceanic and glaciological conditions. Recent fracturing and breakup events of ice shelves in the Canadian High Arctic have attracted significant scientific and public attention, and produced large ice islands which may pose a risk to Arctic shipping and offshore infrastructure. Much has been published about Antarctic ice shelves, but to date there has not been a dedicated book about Arctic ice shelves or ice islands. This book fills that gap.
Download or read book Ice Islands written by Humphrey Hawksley and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On an inhospitable frozen island, Rake Ozenna must gain the trust of a young woman fleeing a Japanese crime empire and caught in the crosshairs of the Russian government. “Another outstanding geopolitical thriller in Hawksley’s excellent Rake Ozenna series . . . carefully researched, action-packed, and suspenseful” –Booklist Starred Review Major Rake Ozenna's mission is simple: gain access to the Kato family - Japan's most dangerous crime empire. But when the secret son of the Russian leader is executed and Rake's target, Sara Kato, is implicated in the murder, a political crisis between Russia, Japan and the US is set in motion. As Rake learns the true extent of their deadly plans, he must draw on every ounce of his training to succeed. Because if he fails, it won't just be his life that will be lost . . . the consequences will be global. _______________________________________ “Brass-knuckled international intrigue for readers who still pine for the world of James Bond” –Kirkus Reviews on Man on Fire “Everything readers want in a political thriller” –Library Journal on Man on Edge “Authentic settings, non-stop action, backstabbing villains, and rough justice” –Steve Berry on Man on Ice
Download or read book Islands of Grounded Sea Ice written by Austin Kovacs and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Frontier Science written by Matthew S. Wiseman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1945 and 1970, Canada’s Department of National Defence sponsored scientific research into the myriad challenges of military operations in cold regions. To understand and overcome the impediments of the country’s cold climate, scientists studied cold-weather acclimatization, hypothermia, frostbite, and psychological morale for soldiers assigned to active duty in northern Canada. Frontier Science investigates the history of military science in northern Canada during this period of the Cold War, highlighting the consequences of government-funded research for humans and nature alike. The book reveals how under the guise of “environmental protection” research, the Canadian military sprayed pesticides to clear bushed areas, used radioactive substances to investigate vector-borne diseases, pursued race-based theories of cold tolerance, and enabled wide-ranging tests of newly developed weapons and equipment. In arguing that military research in northern Canada was a product of the Cold War, Matthew S. Wiseman tackles questions of government power, scientific authority, and medical and environmental research ethics. Based on a long and deep pursuit of declassified records, archival sources, and oral testimony, Frontier Science is a fascinating new history of military approaches to the human-nature relationship.
Download or read book O C S Oversight of 1978 Amendments written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on the Outer Continental Shelf and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ice at the End of the World written by Jon Gertner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic harbinger of climate change “Jon Gertner takes readers to spots few journalists or even explorers have visited. The result is a gripping and important book.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • The Christian Science Monitor • Library Journal Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand Greenland—at first hoping that it would serve as a gateway to the North Pole, and later coming to realize that it contained essential information about our climate. Locked within this vast and frozen white desert are some of the most profound secrets about our planet and its future. Greenland’s ice doesn’t just tell us where we’ve been. More urgently, it tells us where we’re headed. In The Ice at the End of the World, Jon Gertner explains how Greenland has evolved from one of earth’s last frontiers to its largest scientific laboratory. The history of Greenland’s ice begins with the explorers who arrived here at the turn of the twentieth century—first on foot, then on skis, then on crude, motorized sleds—and embarked on grueling expeditions that took as long as a year and often ended in frostbitten tragedy. Their original goal was simple: to conquer Greenland’s seemingly infinite interior. Yet their efforts eventually gave way to scientists who built lonely encampments out on the ice and began drilling—one mile, two miles down. Their aim was to pull up ice cores that could reveal the deepest mysteries of earth’s past, going back hundreds of thousands of years. Today, scientists from all over the world are deploying every technological tool available to uncover the secrets of this frozen island before it’s too late. As Greenland’s ice melts and runs off into the sea, it not only threatens to affect hundreds of millions of people who live in coastal areas. It will also have drastic effects on ocean currents, weather systems, economies, and migration patterns. Gertner chronicles the unfathomable hardships, amazing discoveries, and scientific achievements of the Arctic’s explorers and researchers with a transporting, deeply intelligent style—and a keen sense of what this work means for the rest of us. The melting ice sheet in Greenland is, in a way, an analog for time. It contains the past. It reflects the present. It can also tell us how much time we might have left.
Download or read book The Ice Harbor Mittens written by Robin Hansen and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven year-old sternman Josy wants red and gray sawtooth mittens like his lobster boat skipper, but the village knitter, Aunt Ester, makes him old-fashioned compass mittens. When their boat gets lost in a thick fog, however, the old-time mittens hold the key to getting home safe-there might be some magic knitted into them.
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Download or read book Questions about the Oceans written by Harold W. Dubach and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gravity and Magnetic Observations from Ice Island ARLIS II written by Stephen L. Den Hartog and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technical Report written by Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Physical Geography and Meteorology at the South Atlantic Together with Sailing Directions written by William Henry Rosser and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Explorations in the Ice Zones written by Joseph Everett Nourse and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a brief notice of the Antarctic cruise under Lieutenant Wilkes, 1840, and of the locations and objects of the U.S. signal service Arctic observers.
Download or read book The Antarctic Manual for the Use of the Expedition of 1901 written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ice Technology for Polar Operations written by T. K. S. Murthy and published by Computational Mechanics. This book was released on 1990 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from a conference on ice in the Arctic Ocean, including ice and wave dynamics, ice modelling, environmental aspects, vessels in ice, offshore structures in ice, ship operations, remote sensing, ice forecasting and ice acoustics. Papers deal with ice in the Arctic Ocean, shipping along the north coast of Siberta and the operation in ice of the ice-breaker Polar Sea.
