The Climate of the Arctic

Synthesizing the current state of knowledge about the Arctic climate and recent Arctic meteorology (utilizing resources from the Scott Polar Research Institute library, Cambridge, UK), Przybylak (climatology, Nicholas Copernicus U., Poland) offers chapters on atmospheric circulation, radiation conditions, air temperature, cloudiness, air humidity, atmospheric precipitation and snow cover, air pollution, climatic regions, climatic change and variability in the Holocene era, and future scenarios of the Arctic climate. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR