SWIPA 2011 Executive Summary: Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic.

AMAP’s new assessment of the impacts of climate change on Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) brings together the latest scientific knowledge about the changing state of each component of the Arctic ‘cryosphere’. It examines how these changes will impact both the Arctic as a whole...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) 2011
Subjects:
Ice
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11374/718
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Summary:AMAP’s new assessment of the impacts of climate change on Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic (SWIPA) brings together the latest scientific knowledge about the changing state of each component of the Arctic ‘cryosphere’. It examines how these changes will impact both the Arctic as a whole and people living within the Arctic and elsewhere in the world.