Beschreibung:
W. F. Weeks is a geophysicist who has long studied the ice covers of the polar oceans.
Covering more than seven percent of the earth's surface, sea ice is crucial to the functioning of the biosphere--and is a key component in our attempts to understand and combat climate change. With On Sea Ice, geophysicist W. F. Weeks delivers a natural history of sea ice, a fully comprehensive and up-to-date account of our knowledge of its creation, change, and function.