Sea Ice Second edition, is an essential purchase for oceanographers and marine scientists, environmental scientists, biologists, geochemists and geologists. All those involved in the study of global climate change will find this book to contain a wealth of important information.

Contents

1. The Importance of Sea Ice: An Overview
2. Growth, Structure and Properties of Sea Ice
3. Sea Ice and Oceanography
4. Dynamics Versus Thermodynamics: The Sea Ice Thickness Distribution
5. Snow and Sea Ice
6. Variability and Trends of the Global Sea Ice Cover
7. Sea ice bacteria and viruses
8. Primary Producers and Sea Ice
9. Heterotrophic Protists associated with Sea ice
10. Sea Ice Meio- and Macrofauna
11. Sea Ice: A Critical Habitat for Polar Marine Mammals and Birds
12. Biogeochemistry of Sea Ice
13. Palaeo Sea Ice Distribution and Reconstruction Derived from the Geological Record
14. Sea Ice in Non-Polar Regions
15. Sea ice and Astrobiology

Index

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