21st Century Complete Guide to South Pole Research, Antarctica, and Antarctic Research Stations, Icebergs and Meteorites
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Summary of 21st Century Complete Guide to South Pole Research, Antarctica, and Antarctic Research Stations, Icebergs and Meteorites

A highlight feature are complete reproductions of major official documents including the U.S. Antarctic Program Participant Guide 2000-2002 Edition, the Field Manual for the U.S. Antarctic Program, and the official U.S. Antarctic Program Reports dating back to 1997-1998. Aircraft coverage includes the LC- 130 Hercules, C-141 Starlifter, and C-5 Galaxy, the Twin Otter, and helicopters.

Areas of research covered include aeronomy, astrophysics, auroral imaging, bacteria, biology, climatology, diatoms, ecology, El Nino, geology, geomagnetic phenomena, geophysics, glacier hydrological and mass balance, glaciology medicine, icebergs, ice cores, ice domes, ice sheets, ice stream history and behavior, limnology, meteorology, ocean and climate systems, paleohisory, plankton, sea ice, sea level rise, sedimentation, seismography, soil ecosystems, snow sampling, steam hydrology, stratospheric clouds, weather. This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for nature enthusiasts, libraries, researchers, schools, students, and home reference! It is designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review. The documents are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.

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