Climate Change and the White World

Preface

Introduction                                                                                                                                     

Part I: Arctic and Antarctic

1. Emerging Traits of Sea Ice in the Atlantic Sector of the Arctic

Nalan Koc, Mats A. Granskog, and Philipp Assmy

2. Indian Arctic Multisensory Moored Underwater Observatory

M.A. Atmanand, R. Venkatesan, and G. Latha

3. The Arctic Ocean: Advances in Geopolitics and Geoscience

Walter R Roest and Richard T Haworth.

4. Glacial Sediments of Schirmacher Oasis, east Antarctica and their Characteristics

Rasik Ravindra

Part II: Climate Change and Adaptation

5. Adaptation to Climate Change: A Fishery Technology Perspective

C.N. Ravishankar and V.R. Madhu

6. Potential Technologies for Climate Resilient Agriculture in the Indian Himalayan Region

Latika Pandey and Ayyanadar Arunachalam

7. Need for Reorienting Climate Change Research in the Himalaya: Balancing the Approach

Shyamal K. Nandi, Vikram S. Negi and Ranbeer S. Rawal

Part III: Himalayan Cryosphere and Climate Change

S.C. Kar, Sarita Tiwari and Pushp Raj Tiwari

9. Glacier Stress Pattern as an Indicator for Climate Change

Ashit Kumar Swain

10. Glacier Response to Climate in Arctic and Himalaya during last Seventeen Years: A Case Study of Svalbard, Arctic and Chandra Basin, Himalaya

Parmanand Sharma, Lavkush Kumar Patel, Ajit Tapendra Singh, Thamban Meloth and Rasik Ravindra  

11. Implications of Changing Climatic Pattern on the Geopolitical Situation of North Western Himalaya, India

Ashwagosha Ganju and H.S. Negi

12. Glacier Melt Water Characteristics of Hamtah Glacier, Lahaul & Spiti District, Himachal Pradesh, India

13. Responses of Indian Summer Monsoon (ISM) Dynamics and Late Quaternary Fluvial Development: Records from Yamuna River valley, NW-Himalaya

Sharat Dutta, S.A.I. Mujtaba, R. Bhavani, Mohammad Atif Raza, and R. Chunchekar

14. An Appraisal of Spatio-Temporal Characteristics of Temperature and Precipitation using Gridded Datasets over NW-Himalaya

H.S. Negi and Neha Kanda