Climate and glacial history of the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, Russian Arctic
Subtitle: with notes on the region's history of exploration
By: JaapJan Zeeberg.
Publisher: Rozenberg
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Climatic changes -- Russia (Federation) -- Novaia Zemlia; Paleoclimatology -- Arctic regions -- Holocene; Paleoclimatology -- Arctic regions -- Quaternary; Glaciers -- Arctic regions; Ice fields -- Arctic regions; Geology -- Russia -- Novai͡a Zemli͡a; Global temperature changes; Novai͡a Zemli͡a (Russia) -- Climate -- Observations; Arctic regions -- Climate -- Observations
Genres: Observations.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Historical observations and early hypotheses; title: 3. Holocene relative sea-level history of north Novaya Zemlya and Vaygach Island; title: 4. Size and extent of the last ice sheets in the Barents Sea: evidence from Novaya Zemlya and Vaygach; title: 5. Strength and variability of atmospheric and oceanic controls on Novaya Zemlya climate; title: 6. Post-Little Ice Age glacier retreat and glacier mass balance on north Zemlya; title: 7. Climate variability of the North Atlantic Regions during the past millennium, in fjord sediment and tree-ring records; title: 8. Some notes on the archipelago's history of exploration; title: 9. Search for Barents: evaluation of possible burial sites on northern Novaya Zemlya.