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This is the first book on the climate and Quaternary geology of Novaya Zemlya since 1924. This volume also presents the results of a search for 16th century-navigator Willem Barents along Novaya Zemlya's northern shores, and a synopsis of the exploration of the region after the 'Little Ice Age'. Appendices and tables summarize the occurrence of bird species and reindeer, and the spread of radioisotope contaminants following nuclear weapons tests since 1954. To detail the nature of climate change in the North Atlantic region, this book utilizes more than a century of meteorological observations from three weather stations on Novaya Zemlya in the eastern Barents Sea. The Russian Arctic is at the receiving end of the climatically sensitive oceanic 'conveyor belt', and fluctuations in this heat flow have considerable consequences for Arctic geography and ecology. Glaciers on Novaya Zemlya are stable since the 1950s due to substantial increase in winter precipitation associated with strengthening of the North Atlantic Oscillation. Field studies conducted in this 1000 km-long region in 1993, 1995, 1998 and 2000 demonstrated about 6 m of equivalent global sea level rise originating from the Russian Arctic since 20,000 years ago.

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