NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT:
CLIMATE AND GLACIAL HISTORY OF THE NOVAYA ZEMLYA
ARCHIPELAGO, RUSSIAN ARCTIC with notes on the region's history of
exploration (ISBN: 9051705638)
Hardbound, 176 pp., 90 b/w photographs, satellite images, diagrams,
historical maps
This book can be ordered from Rozenberg Publishers, Amsterdam at:
http://www.rozenbergps.com
Price: $42.50 (USD) plus shipping.
This is the first book on the climate and Quaternary geology of Novaya
Zemlya since 1924. This volume also presents the results of a search for
16th century-navigator Willem Barents along Novaya Zemlya's northern
shores, and a synopsis of the exploration of the region after the
'Little Ice Age.' Appendices and tables summarize the occurrence of bird
species an reindeer, and the spread of radio-isotope contaminants
following nuclear weapons tests since 1954.
To detail the nature of climate change in the North Atlantic region,
this book utilizes more than a century of meteorological observations
from three weather stations on Novaya Zemlya in the eastern Barents Sea.
The Russian Arctic is at the receiving end of the climatically sensitive
oceanic ëconveyor belt', and fluctuations in this heat flow have
considerable consequences for Arctic geography and ecology. Glaciers on
Novaya Zemlya are stable since the 1950s due to substantial increase in
winter precipitation associated with strengthening of the North Atlantic
Oscillation. Field studies conducted in this 1000 km-long region in
1993, 1995, 1998, and 2000 demonstrated about 6 m of equivalent global
sea level rise originating from the Russian Arctic since 20,000 years
ago.
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