The concept of feedback is key in assessing whether a perturbation to a system is amplified
or damped by mechanisms internal to the system. In polar regions, climate dynamics are …

Even if anthropogenic warming were constrained to less than 2° C above pre-industrial, the
Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets will continue to lose mass this century, with rates similar …

Landsat 8, a NASA and USGS collaboration, acquires global moderate-resolution
measurements of the Earth's terrestrial and polar regions in the visible, near-infrared, short …

Glaciers and Glaciation is the classic textbook for all students of glaciation. Stimulating and
accessible, it has established a reputation as a comprehensive and essential resource. In …

Geodesy, the oldest science, has become an important discipline in the geosciences, in
large part by enhancing Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities over the last 35 years …

A brand new edition of the definitive textbook on humankind's impact on the Earth's
environment—now in full color This classic text explores the multitude of impacts that …

The summer of 2003 was probably the hottest in Europe since at latest ad 1500,,,, and
unusually large numbers of heat-related deaths were reported in France, Germany and Italy …

A semi-empirical relation is presented that connects global sea-level rise to global mean
surface temperature. It is proposed that, for time scales relevant to anthropogenic warming …

The Arctic is a region in transformation. Warming in the region has been amplified, as
expected from ice‐albedo feedback effects, with the rate of warming observed to be∼ …

Plausible estimates for the effect of soot on snow and ice albedos (1.5% in the Arctic and 3%
in Northern Hemisphere land areas) yield a climate forcing of+ 0.3 W/m2 in the Northern …