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- Recommends how the international scientific community may gain access to this really challenging arena for local, regional and Global research
Part of the book series: NATO Science Series: IV: (NAIV, volume 45)
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Jan Mayen is a volcanic island surrounded by the deep Greenland, Iceland and Norwegian Seas. There, atmospheric and oceanic processes unleash potential energy that forces very dynamic interactions between sea and air. This unique geophysical focal point generates climatic variability in northern Europe, and supports marine biological production that sustains the yield of large living resources. The marine populations are clearly fluctuating with variations in climate, and raises questions about effects of man-made climate change. Since the last Ice Age the sinking of Greenland Sea Deep-Water has been a substantial driving force for the Global Thermo-Haline Circulation which feeds warm Atlantic water into the Nordic Seas. Global warming may interact with the deep-water formation and force feedback mechanisms that express themselves beyond imagination. The book addresses such problems to raise an interest for doing research on the island and in its waters. The potentials for doing that increases when the island's Loran-C station closes down in 2005. The book recommends how the international scientific community may gain access to this really challenging arena for local, regional and Global research. It is a blueprint for the logistics required for science to succeed in a very remote and physically demanding place on Earth.
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Book Title: Jan Mayen Island in Scientific Focus
Editors: Stig Skreslet
Series Title: NATO Science Series: IV:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2957-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2955-4Published: 30 November 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2956-1Published: 30 November 2004
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2957-8Published: 13 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1568-1238
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 364
Number of Illustrations: 134 b/w illustrations
Topics: Earth Sciences, general, Building Types and Functions, Life Sciences, general, Administrative Law, Environment, general