Climate Change and the White World
This book showcases the results of studies pertaining to climate changes in the Polar Regions - Arctic-Antarctic-Himalaya. It discusses the significant variations due to thinning of sea ice in the Arctic, insights on the first Indian Arctic multi-sensor m
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te Change and the White World
Climate Change and the White World
Prem Shankar Goel • Rasik Ravindra Sulagna Chattopadhyay Editors
Climate Change and the White World
Editors Prem Shankar Goel National Institute of Advanced Studies Bangalore, India Sulagna Chattopadhyay LIGHTS Research Foundation New Delhi, India
Rasik Ravindra ESSO - National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research Goa, India
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Preface
The current book Climate Change and the White World is the outcome of the 4th Conference on Science and Geopolitics of Himalaya, Arctic and Antarctic (SaGHAA IV 2017) held at the Convention Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, on November 30 and December 1, 2017. The Arctic, Antarctica and the third Pole-Himalaya have drawn the attention of scientists and researchers in the last few decades like never before due to the unprecedented changes in the environment and morphology of cryospheric regions. The region also has seen the emergence of political interventions and strategic scientific developments especially in view of the claims of coastal states to continental shelves beyond their exclusive economic zones and on the issues of Antarctic Treaty System. The year 2018 has been ranked fourth warmest on record. As per a recent report of NASA, 18 of the 19 warmest years have occurred since 2001. The global warming and associated climate variability that scientists had been warning about are no longer a myth. The increasing evidences in the form of extreme weather events, viz. increase in flash
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