The Patagonian Icefields: A Unique Natural Laboratory for Environmental and Climate Change Studies

by Casassa, Gino

• ISBN13: 9780306467899
• ISBN10: 0306467895
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS

Summary

This book presents a collection of 17 papers by authors from eight different countries from diverse fields dealing with multi disciplinary research on the Patagonian Icefields. The main emphasis is glaciology, climatology and paleoclimatology, with contributions in glacier ecology, microbiology and aerosols. The volume is the proceedings of a meeting held on board a Chilean Navy ship, which sailed along the fjords, where the participants had the opportunity of actually setting foot on the Southern Patagonia Icefield.The volume presents an updated review of glacier and climate-related research of the Patagonian icefields, and will become necessary reading for anyone interested in the Patagonian glaciers and the surrounding environment.

Table of Contents

BIOLOGY
Glacier Ecosystem and Biological Ice-Core Analysis	1	(8)
Shiro Kohshima
Yoshitaka Yoshimura
Nozomu Takeuchi
Isolation and Identification of Bacteria from Ancient and Modern Ice Cores	9	(8)
Brent C. Christner
Ellen Mosley-Thompson
Lonnie G. Thompson
Victor Zagorodnov
John N. Reeve
Perspectives for DNA Studies on Polar Ice Cores	17	(12)
Anders J. Hansen
Eske Willerslev
CLIMATE AND PALEOCLIMATE
Meteorological and Climatological Aspects of the Southern Patagonia Icefield	29	(14)
Jorge F. Carrasco
Gino Casassa
Andres Rivera
Western Patagonia: A Key Area for Understanding Quaternary Paleoclimate at Southern Mid-Latitudes	43	(12)
Patricio I. Moreno
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Glacier Fluctuations in the Mendoza Andes, Argentina	55	(12)
Lydia E. Espizua
GLACIOLOGY
Current Knowledge of the Southern Patagonia Icefield	67	(18)
Gino Casassa
Andres Rivera
Masamu Aniya
Renji Naruse
The Southern Patagonia Icefield Mass Balance	85	(4)
Juan Carlos Leiva
Glacier Mass Balance and Climate in the South American Andes	89	(12)
Georg Kaser
Ice Thickness Measurements on the Southern Patagonia Icefield	101	(16)
Andres Rivera
Gino Casassa
ICE CORING
Locating A Drilling Site on the Patagonian Icefields	117	(8)
Niels Gundestrup
On the Potential to Retrieve Climatic and Environmental Information from Ice-Core Sites Suffering Periodical Melt, with Specific Assessment of the Southern Patagonia Icefield	125	(14)
Veijo Pohjola
Argentine Program on Climate and Environmental Studies by Means of Ice Cores	139	(10)
Alberto J. Aristarain
Firn-Core Drilling Operation at Tyndall Glacier, Southern Patagonia Icefield	149	(8)
Maria-Angelica Godoi
Takayuki Shiraiwa
Shiro Kohshima
Keiji Kubota
First Results of a Paleoatmospheric Chemistry and Climate Study of Cerro Tapado Glacier, Chile	157	(12)
Patrick Ginot
Margit Schwikowski
Heinz W. Gaggeler
Ulrich Schotterer
Christoph Kull
Martin Funk
Andres Rivera
Felix Stampfli
Willi Stichler
Interpreting Climate Signals from a Shallow Equatorial Core: Antisana, Ecuador	169	(8)
Mark W. Williams
Bernard Francou
Eran Hood
Bruce Vaughn
Potential Application of Methodologies for Studying Atmospheric Aerosols, in the Study of Climatic and Environmental Information from Ice Cores	177	(12)
Margarita Prendez
Index	189