The Earth’s Cryosphere and Sea Level Change: 40 (Space Sciences Series of ISSI) - Hardcover

 
9789400720626: The Earth’s Cryosphere and Sea Level Change: 40 (Space Sciences Series of ISSI)
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ISBN 10: 9400720629 ISBN 13: 9789400720626
Verlag: Springer, 2011

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This book gives a comprehensive overview of our present understanding of the Earth's cryosphere, its changes and their consequences for mean sea level changes. Since the middle of the 19th century there has been an increase of sea level height by 20-25 cm. Some 8-10 cm of this is due to net losses from glaciers, the remainder being due to mass losses from land ice and thermal expansion of the oceans. The mean sea level rise is slowly accelerating; at present it is some 3 mm/year. Recent space observations made by the GRACE satellite combined with ocean temperature and volume measurements have enabled the separate contributions to sea level rise from melting ice and from thermal expansion to be better estimated. The estimation of mean sea level change is complicated by changes in land level due to tectonic effects and to ongoing changes following the latest major glaciation. The book gives an up-to-date survey of our present knowledge of this crucial subject.

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This book gives a comprehensive overview of our present understanding of the Earth s cryosphere, its changes and their consequences for mean sea level changes. Since the middle of the 19th century there has been an increase of sea level height by 20-25 cm. Some 10 cm of this is due to net losses from glaciers, the remainder being due to mass losses from land ice and thermal expansion of the oceans. The mean sea level rise is slowly accelerating; at present it is some 3 mm/year. Recent space observations made by the GRACE satellite combined with ocean temperature and volume measurements have enabled the separate contributions to sea level rise from melting ice and from thermal expansion to be better estimated. The estimation of mean sea level change is complicated by changes in land level due to tectonic effects and to ongoing changes following the most recent major glaciation. The book gives an up-to-date survey of our present knowledge of this crucial subject.

Reprinted from Surveys in Geophysics 32:4-5 (2011).

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Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9400720629
ISBN 13 
9789400720626
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
352
Herausgeber
Bengtsson Lennart, Bonnet R.-M., Koumoutsaris Simeon
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