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By Cal Heusser

ISBN-10: 0444529519

ISBN-13: 9780444529510

The Juneau Icefield learn undertaking (JIRP) used to be shaped to discover a prototype sector to check Alaska's coastal glaciers and developments in climatic swap. For the previous fifty seven years JIRP has performed a scientific examine of key receding and advancing glaciers, together with Lemon Creek and Taku Glaciers. From this examine, a version has been built to review the mass stability of those glaciers and their relation to basic atmospheric stream. Taku's mass stability used to be anticipated to supply a significant evaluate of flakier weather kin and environmental traits, in particular the rise in atmospheric hint aspect pollutants and international warming.

Juneau Icefield learn venture (1949-1958) is represented through 15 chapters, equipped in 4 elements: history of the venture, Early Years of the venture (1949-1952, Later Years of the undertaking (1953-1958), and Summation and Epilogue. After describing the Project's historical past, Chapters three via 12 hide year-by-year actions, body of workers, logistics, and study of the Taku and Lemon Creek Glaciers. those chapters incorporated day by day magazine entries that symbolize a checklist of the casual itineraries overlaying the process the research. Chapters thirteen and 14 summarize glaciological findings on Taku Glacier and the prestige of hydrological budgets on Lemon Creek Glacier throughout the foreign Geophysical yr (1957-19658). the ultimate bankruptcy of the textual content is an outline of paleoecological paintings by way of the undertaking in North Pacific the USA introduced into the context of recent learn with the popularity of glacier-climate cycles.

* files the research Juneau Icefield study venture on a year-by-year account overlaying actions, group of workers, logistics and examine
* Discusses the version built from the JIRP and explains its significance in predicting destiny weather changes
* provides the data with daily magazine entries, making the textual content appealing and straightforward to read

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