Call number:
AWI A4-22-94545
Description / Table of Contents:
Sea ice covers 20 million km² of our planet’s surface. It plays an important role in the Earth’s climate and is home to a variety of fascinating fauna, from the polar bear to the emperor penguin. Sailors and meteorologists use a wide range of terms such as frazil, pancake ice, floe or hummock to describe the different features of sea ice.
This book includes an illustrated guide to sea ice so that polar travellers can discover this environment and understand ice charts. The story of sea ice is also a story of human endeavour. For the Inuit, fast ice is an ideal terrain for hunting, fishing and travelling. But for European explorers the drifting ice was an insurmountable barrier for centuries, crushing ships and forcing crews to spend long and difficult winters on the ice. It has also been the scene of incredible adventures involving planes, submarines, icebreakers and sometimes even rafts of drifting ice. But our planet is warming and the oldest polar sea ice is disappearing. The declining sea ice encourages the economic and industrial development of the Arctic, but also disrupts the climate, societies and fauna of the Far North. The author is a meteorologist who has wintered in Antarctica, lived in Greenland
and guides several polar expedition cruises each year.
Type of Medium:
Monograph available for loan
Pages:
112 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
15 x 21 cm
ISBN:
978-2-918299-26-4
Series Statement:
Maxi-Guides Collection : Polar Regions
Language:
English
Note:
Contents
ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO SEA ICE
Presentation
Ice development
Fast ice
Occurrence and concentration of floating ice
Forms of floating ice
Distribution of ice
Openings in the ice
Ice surface features
Melt stages
Break-up
Charting sea ice
Egg code
SEA ICE
Extent and area
Thickness and salinity
Currents
Climatic role
Life in the ice
FAUNA
The Arctic
Antarctica
MAN AND THE SEA ICE
The Inuit
Explorers from the 15th to the 19th century
Shipwrecked on a raft of ice
The Fram and the drifting ice stations
Polar aircraft
Polar submarines
Icebreakers
Tourism
Sports
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Übersetzung aus dem Französischen
Location:
AWI Reading room
Branch Library:
AWI Library
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