Source-to-Sink Fluxes in Undisturbed Cold Environments

Herausgeber: Beylich, Achim A.; Zwoli¿ski, Zbigniew; Dixon, John C.

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides the first quantitative overview of global source-to-sink fluxes in cold climate environments for graduate students and researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 422
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 1318g
• ISBN-13: 9781107068223
• ISBN-10: 1107068223
• Artikelnr.: 44273623

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Part I. Solute and Sedimentary Fluxes and Budgets in Changing Cold
Climate Environments: 1. Introduction to the theme; 2. The IAG/AIG SEDIBUD
(Sediment Budgets in Cold Environments) programme; Part II. Climate Change
in Cold Environments and General Implications for Contemporary Solute and
Sedimentary Fluxes: 3. The changing cryosphere - implications for solute
and sedimentary fluxes in cold climate environments; 4. Changes in
vegetation cover and implications for solute and sedimentary fluxes in cold
climate environments; Part III. Solute and Sedimentary Fluxes in Sub-Arctic
and Arctic Environments: 5. Contemporary solute and sedimentary fluxes in
Arctic and Sub-Arctic environments: current knowledge; 6. The use of
dendrogeomorphology to recognize the spatio-temporal distribution of snow
avalanches in northern Iceland - case studies from Dalsmynni,
Ljósavatnsskarð and Fnjóskadalur; 7. A contemporary assessment of sediment
and solute transfers in Kärkevagge, Swedish Lapland; 8. Hillslope processes
and related sediment fluxes on a fine-grained scree slope of Eastern
Canada; 9. Sediment and solute transport from Greenland; 10. Measurements
of bedload flux in a high Arctic environment; 11. Solute and particulate
fluxes in catchments in Spitsbergen; 12. Sediment and solute fluxes at the
Igarka field site, Russian Sub-Arctic; 13. Variability and controls of
solute and sedimentary fluxes in Sub-Arctic and Arctic environments; Part
IV. Solute and Sedimentary Fluxes in Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic
Environments: 14. Environmental impact on contemporary solute and
sedimentary fluxes in Antarctica: current knowledge; 15. Solute and solid
cascade system in the Antarctic oases; 16. Environmental controls on
sediment composition and particle fluxes over the Antarctic continental
shelf; 17. Solute and sedimentary fluxes on King George Island; 18.
Dynamics of the Antarctica ice cap; 19. Solute and sediment fluxes from
rivers and streams in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica; Part V. Solute
and Sedimentary Fluxes in Alpine/Mountain Environments: 20. Chemical
denudation in partly glacierized mountain catchments of the fjord landscape
in western Norway: contemporary rates, environmental controls and possible
effects of climate change; 21. Sediment delivery from headwater slope
systems and relief development in steep mountain valleys in western Norway;
22. Suspended sediment dynamics in the proglacial zone of the rapidly
retreating Castle Creek Glacier, British Columbia, Canada; 23. Sedimentary
fluxes in Himalaya; 24. Rates of slope and channel processes in the Reintal
Valley, Bavarian Alps; 25. Comparative analysis of sediment routing in two
different alpine catchments; 26. Controls and variability of solute and
sedimentary fluxes in alpine/mountain environments; Part VI. Quantitative
Analysis of Solute and Sedimentary Fluxes in Cold Climate Environments: 27.
Environmental drivers, spatial variability and rates of chemical and
mechanical fluvial denudation in selected glacierized and non-glacierized
cold climate catchment geosystems: from coordinated field data generation
to integration and modeling; 28. Summary of key findings from Arctic,
Antarctic and mountain environments; Index.