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Record #191145:
Antarctic climate, weather and the health of Antarctic wildlife / M. Pook.
Title: | Antarctic climate, weather and the health of Antarctic wildlife / M. Pook. |
Author(s): | Pook, M. |
Date: | 2009. |
Publisher: | Berlin: Springer |
In: | Health of Antarctic wildlife : a challenge for science and policy. (2009.), |
Abstract: | Provides overview of interactions of geography of Antarctica with large-scale climatic processes, and discusses effect of local weather conditions on natural environment, with particular reference to aspects of disease in wildlife. Includes temperature distribution and variability; surface wind and its effects; climate trends; and extreme regional climate anomalies and their biological consequences in Antarctic Peninsula and Weddell Sea region, and in East Antarctica. |
Notes: | In: Health of Antarctic wildlife : a challenge for science and policy / Knowles R. Kerry, Martin J. Riddle, eds. |
Keywords: | 551.5 -- Meteorology. 551.524 -- Air temperature. 551.55 -- Wind and air turbulence. 551.556 -- Wind, effects of. 551.58 -- Climatology. 551.583 -- Climatic changes. H1 -- Zoology: general. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. |
SPRI record no.: | 191145 |
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