The Arctic Basin
Publication year: 2005
ISBN: 978-3-540-37665-1
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The authors describe in The Russian North Pole Drifting Stations for the first time the history of establishing drifting stations in the Arctic Basin since 1937. They set out the main aims and goals of the observations made and outline the methods of organizing the drifting stations, gear and equipment for life support and scientific observations at the North Pole drifting stations and during the airborne high-latitudinal expeditions. The main scientific results and the analysis of data obtained during metereological, oceanographic, ice and geophysical observations are presented and the book contains illustrations, maps and tables that can be used by a wide range of specialists investigating the nature of the Arctic region.
Subject: Earth and Environmental Science, Albedo, Arctic Drifting Stations, Arctic Ocean, Climate Change, Climatology, Geography, Ocean, Oceanography, Polar Regions, Snow, Weather forecasting, sea ice
