Air-ice-ocean interaction: Turbulent ocean boundary layer exchange processesby Miles McPhee, 2008
Understanding exchanges of momentum, heat, and salt at the ice-ocean interface is critical for predicting the future state of sea ice. By offering a measurement platform largely unaffected by waves, drifting sea ice provides a unique laboratory for studying aspects of geophysical boundary layer flows difficult to measure elsewhere. This book concisely describes the impact of stress, rotation, and buoyancy on the turbulence scales that control exchanges between the atmosphere and underlying ocean when sea ice is present.
Global climate change impacts in the United States
by U.S. Global Change Research Program, 2009
This state of knowledge report, written for Congress and the President, summarizes the science of climate change and its impacts on the United States, now and in the future.
Plows, plagues, and petroleum: How humans took control of climate
by William Ruddiman, 2010
Jim White wants you to read this book. Or at least that’s what he wrote in his review of the 2005 hardback edition in Science: “If you're not familiar with Ruddiman's hypothesis, you should be…excellent reading for scientist and nonscientist alike.”
Frozen in time: Permafrost and engineering problems
by Siemon Muller, 2008
This previously unpublished work by Siemon Muller (1900-1970) was set aside in the early 1960s, at about the time of the First International Conference on Permafrost. Rediscovered and revised, it offers an advanced and unusually comprehensive treatment of permafrost science and associated engineering problems.
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