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This book provides an overview of the current state of knowledge of Arctic ice shelves, ice islands and related features. Ice shelves are permanent areas of ice which float on the ocean surface while attached to the coast, and typically occur in very cold environments where perennial sea ice builds up to great thickness, and/or where glaciers flow off the land and are preserved on the ocean surface. These landscape features are relatively poorly studied in the Arctic, yet they are potentially highly sensitive indicators of climate change because they respond to changes in atmospheric, oceanic and glaciological conditions. Recent fracturing and breakup events of ice shelves in the Canadian High Arctic have attracted significant scientific and public attention, and produced large ice islands which may pose a risk to Arctic shipping and offshore infrastructure. Much has been published about Antarctic ice shelves, but to date there has not been a dedicated book about Arctic ice shelves or ice islands. This book fills that gap.

Geography. --- Climate change. --- Earth sciences. --- Polar regions. --- Geophysics. --- Nature conservation. --- Polar Geography. --- Geophysics and Environmental Physics. --- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts. --- Nature Conservation. --- Earth Sciences, general. --- Conservation of nature --- Nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Geosciences --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Conservation --- Environmental aspects --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Earth sciences --- Physics --- Environmental sciences --- Physical sciences --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Cosmography --- World history --- Climatic changes. --- Geology --- Ice shelves. --- Ice islands. --- Floating islands --- Icebergs --- Sea ice --- Drifting ice stations --- Shelf ice --- Shelves, Ice --- Glaciers --- Ice sheets --- Global environmental change