Assessing the Antarctic Environment from a Climate Change Perspective

The present book covers diversified contributions addressing the impact of climate change on the Antarctic environment. It covers the reconstruction of environmental changes using different proxies. The chapters focus on the glacial history, glacial geomorphology, sedimentology, and geochemistry of Antarctic region. Furthermore, the Cenozoic evolution of the Antarctic ice sheet is discussed along with a Scientometrics analysis of climate change research. The book serves as a useful reference for researchers who are fascinated by the polar region and environmental research.

Contenu

Chapter 1. Geopolitics, Environmental Change and Antarctic Governance: A Region in Need of a Transformative Approach to Science Diplomacy (Dhanasree Jayaram).- Chapter 2. Impact of Antarctic Science on Climate Change Research: Global Research landscape (P.G. Dastidar).- Chapter 3. Climate change over the Antarctic and the Southern Ocean and its impact and bearing on the global climate system (Shabnam Choudhary).- Chapter 4. Cenozoic Evolution of Antarctic Ice sheet, Circum Antarctic Circulation and Antarctic climate: Evidence from marine sedimentary records (Ashutosh K Singh).- Chapter 5. Dronning Maud Land (Antarctica) and reconstruction of its glacial history with cosmogenic radionuclides (Waseem Ahmad Baba).- Chapter 6. Late Quaternary climate change in Schirmacher region, East Antarctica: as revealed from terrestrial diamicts and lacustrine sediments (Prakash Kumar Shrivastava).- Chapter 7. A review of the palaeoclimatic studies from lake sediments of Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica (Pawan Govil).- Chapter 8. A synthesis of glacial-interglacial paleoenvironmental records from lake sediments of Schirmacher Oasis, East Antarctica (Anish Kumar Warrier).- Chapter 9. Nutrient cycling and productivity in Antarctic lakes (Shabnam Choudhary).- Chapter 10. Chemical and isotopic characterization of lakes in the Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica (Resmi T R).- Chapter 11. Effect of ionosphere scintillations on the loss of lock-in GPS signals at Antarctica Region (A.K.Gwal).- Chapter 12. Effect of Ionospheric Scintillation on the Positional Error and Loss of Lock of GPS Signal in Antarctic Region (A.K.Gwal).- Chapter 13. Climate change and Antarctic seabirds: insights from ecological monitoring of snow petrels in the Indian Antarctic Program (Anant Pande).- Chapter 14. Antarctic lichen response to climate change: Evidence from natural gradients and temperature enchantment experiments (Sanjeeva Nayaka).- Chapter 15. Higher Rate of Pigment Synthesis in Antarctic Plants: A Strategy of Survival under UV Radiations (Jaswant Singh).- Chapter 16. Geoscience studies in Antarctica by CSIR-National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad (Joshi K Catherine).- Chapter 17. Seismogenesis and Seismic potential of Antarctica region: Future Course of Comprehensive Study (O P Mishra).- Chapter 18. Revealing the contemporary kinematics of Antarctic plate using GPS and GRACE data (P.S. Sunil)