"Glaciers and the Polar Environment" ed. by Masaki Kanao, Danilo Godone, Niccolò Dematteis

This book covers topics on the recent development of all kinds of scientific research on glaciers and Antarctica, in the context of currently on-going processes in the extreme environment in polar regions.

Glaciers and Polar regions provide important clues to understanding the past and present status of the Earth system, as well as to predict future forms of our planet. In particular, Antarctica, composed of an ice-covered continent in its center and the surrounding Sothern Ocean, has been gradually investigated during the last half century by all kinds of scientific branches; bioscience, physical sciences, geoscience, oceanography, environmental studies, together with technological components.


Contents
1. Gas Hydrates in Antarctica
2. Geomorphological Insight of Some Ice Free Areas of Eastern Antarctica
3. Kalman Filter Harmonic Bank for Vostok Ice Core Data Analysis and Climate Predictions
4. The Vegetation of the South Shetland Islands and the Climatic Change
5. Whales as Indicators of Historical and Current Changes in the Marine Ecosystem of the Indo-Pacific Sector of the Antarctic
6. Risks of Glaciers Lakes Outburst Flood along China Pakistan Economic Corridor
7. Close-Range Sensing of Alpine Glaciers
8. Glacial Biodiversity: Lessons from Ground-dwelling and Aquatic Insects
9. Variations of Lys Glacier (Monte Rosa Massif, Italy) from the Little Ice Age to the Present from Historical and Remote Sensing Datasets


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