The Arctic Basin - Results from the Russian Drifting Stations

Hardcover  XXIV, 273 p  ISBN 3540241426      £100.00

Zalman Gudkovich's main area of research remains ice motion in the Arctic Ocean and seas of the Siberian Shelf, and he has contributed to 150 scientific publications and proceedings. Vladimir Radionov, whose international research projects have included a joint US/Russian Arctic atlas and a major Arctic climatology project, is the co-author of some 60 scientific related publications. Alexander Shirochkov has participated in three winter long Antarctic expeditions and is now head of the Ionospheric Research Laboratory of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. He has more than 100 scientific papers to his name and has contributed to several collective scientific books. Leonid Timokhov also worked on the joint US/Russian Arctic Atlas and the Arctic Climatology project and is the author and co-author of some 120 scientific publications and proceedings. This extremely experienced group of researchers and authors are ideally suited to write this book.

Written for academics in polar research in particular physicists, climatologists, environmentalists and geologists

Contents

• Preface.
• Introduction, North Pole (NP) drifting ice camp brief history.
• Main scientific results.
• Atmosphere.
• Meterological observations at North Pole drifting stations.
• Solar radiation regime.-
• Albedo of the snow cover.
• Atmospheric processes over the North polar seas and long-range weather forecasting.
• Sea ice cover.
• Geophysical observations at the ice drifting stations "North Pole".
• Oceanography.
• Hydrobiology.
• Summary.