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Encyclopedia of snow, ice and glaciers

An encyclopedia with a focus on the formation of snow and the transformation of snow to ice, as well as the classification of ice and glaciers, hydrology and sedimentary systems, permafrost, and the impact of climate change.

Subjects: Permafrost, Snow, Ice, Hydrology, Climate change

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Encyclopedia of the Arctic

A three-volume set of essays on the Arctic’s environment, climate, peoples, ecology, wildlife, history, economics, and politics.

Subjects: Animals, Politics, Indigenous peoples, History, Environment, Economy, Ecology, Climate change

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Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Porsild’s Illustrated Flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (1957, 1964) has been the authority for vascular plants of Canada’s Arctic islands for more than 40 years, during which time there has been considerable research on Arctic vascular plants. The present document summarizes the post-1957 literature, the information resulting from the Panarctic Flora project (Nordal and Razzhivin 1999, Elven et al. 2003), and the current nomenclature for Arctic flora included in Flora of North America.

Subjects: Arctic flora, Plants, Plant morphology

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Practical dictionary of Siberia and the North = Severnaia͡ ents͡ikloediia͡a

A compilation of over 4,000 articles by Russian specialists on scientific, historical, and geographic issues related to Siberia, Scandinavia, Canada, Alaska, the North Pole, and Russia.

Subjects: Siberia, Russia, Geography, Circumpolar North, History

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The Encyclopedia Arctica

The Encyclopedia Arctica is the typescript of a proposed 20-volume reference work on the northern Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The project was started in 1947 and was never published. Subjects covered include archaeology, anthropology, botany, engineering, geography, geology, history, law (including international relations), language, medicine, meteorology, oceanography, religion, zoology, and biographies.

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The Western Arctic Seas Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia designed to accumulate and systematize knowledge about three unique natural water areas—the Barents, White, and Kara Seas—and their rich features, the events that have taken place on their waters and shores, and the remarkable people whose lives were, and are, closely intertwined with these seas.

Subjects: Biology, Oceanography, Western Arctic, History, Earth sciences

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