Activity Title: Can Global Warming cause Global Cooling?

Background Articles and Materials for teachers:
last update - January 5, 2006

Video

Hot Climate : Cold Comfort teacher resources and available for viewing online.http://www.pbs.org/saf/1505/

Warnings from the Ice -NOVA http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/activities/2508_warnings.html

Books:

Atmosphere, Climate and Change - Thomas E. Graedel and Paul J. Crutzen

The Ice Chronicles - Paul A. Mayewski and Frank White

The Little Ice Age - Brian Fagan

The Long Summer - Brian Fagan

Two Mile Ice Time machine - Richard Alley

Magazine and Online Sources of Background and General Information:

Tracking the Changing Arctic http://www.physicstoday.org/vol-57/iss-8/p38.html

Climate of Man - New Yorker 04-25-2005 issue http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050425fa_fact3

Abrupt Climate Change http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/currenttopics/abruptclimate_rcurry_pr.html

Greenland is melting http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3922579.stm

Grenland Ice sheet melting NASA EOS page http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/MediaAlerts/2003/2003120816303.html

Online education resources http://cires.colorado.edu/education/resources/

Ice Edge changes http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~david/lbst2005.pdf

Ice Cores and Greenland http://nsidc.org/data/arcss069.html

Arctic http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/

Global Currents http://www.whoi.edu/home/about/currents10_no2_riverruns_stationw.html

Ocean Currents Slowing http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4485840.stm

An Icy Riddle big as Greenland New York Times article June, 8 2004

International Polar year has links to presentations http://www.ipy.org/index.php

All about glaciers http://nsidc.org/glaciers/

Scientists and researchers that are involved in the research and helped with this project:

Roger Bales – UC Merced (Greenland and Antarctica) http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/rbales/index.html

Gordon Hamilton – University of Maine – ITASE (Antarctica)
http://www.ume.maine.edu/iceage/Directory/people/gordon.html

Paul Mayewski
http://www.ume.maine.edu/iceage/Directory/people/mayewski.html

Deb Meese
http://www.crrel.usace.army.mil/personnel/meese.debra.html

Konrad Steffen
http://cires.colorado.edu/people/steffen/

Russell Huff
http://cires.colorado.edu/science/groups/steffen/people/

Bea Csatho – Greenland Ice Sheet melting
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/greenice.htm

Joe McConnell
http://www.dri.edu/People/jmcconn/

Ruth Curry
http://www.whoi.edu/WHOI/SciTechDir/ruth_curry.html

H.L. Bryden - http://www.soton.ac.uk/

Teachers who have been to Summit Greenland:

Read Online Journals here - http://tea.armadaproject.org/tea_meetteachers.html

Catherine Koehler (2000/2001)
Manchester High School, Manchester, Connecticut
Greenland with Konrad Steffen, University of Colorado at Boulder

Elizabeth Youngman (2001/2002)
Phoenix Country Day School, Paradise Valley, AZ
Snowpack and Atmospheric Photochemistry with Dr. Roger Bales

Lars Long (2003/2004)
DeLong Middle School, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Greenland's Ice Sheet: Tales of the Past and a Look into the Future with Joe McConnell

Article from NY times on life at Summit camp
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/18/science/sciencespecialreport/19revk.html?ex=1112504400&en=cf1b9dc3aa4519d0&ei=5070

Summit Web Camera
http://summitcamp.org/webcam/index.html

Original Science Articles in PDF format

Melt Anomaly Greenland Ice Sheet

January 2000 Physics Today

A River Runs Through It

Mass Balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Observing the Earth From Space

Ruth Curry - Change in the Freshwater Balance In the North Atlantic

Changes in the Greenland Ice Sheet

Abrupt Shifts in Greenland

Mass Balance at Ice Sheet Margins

Final PARCA report

Greenland Ice Sheet Coastal Thinning

Ocean Currents Changing

Data Sources:

Greenland Maps and data

http://nsidc.org/data/parca/

http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0052.htm

http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0092.html

Arctic ocean maps and data sets

Arctic Atlas
http://vitalgraphics.grida.no/arcticmap/description.cfm?noLink=1#datasources

Arctic Meterology
http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/

UN Ocean Atlas
http://www.oceansatlas.com/unatlas/about/mapsandstatistics/background/hdnoplates/index.htm

Climate Indicators - Ocean

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect/climate-ocean.shtml

Atmospheric change in the Arctic

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect/climate-strat.shtml

http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/1999archive/12-99archive/k121699.html

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect/climate-clouds.shtml

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect/marine-greenland.shtml

Barents Sea

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect/marine-greenland.shtml

http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/barsea/barindex.html

Woods Hole data sets

http://www.whoi.edu/home/index_search.html

Data for rivers

http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/hydro/

Arctic

base maps http://www.grida.no/db/gis/prod/html/arctic.htm

Arctic Vegetation maps
http://nsidc.org/data/ggd639.html

Circum-Arctic Map of Permafrost and Ground-Ice Conditions
http://nsidc.org/data/ggd318.html

Other GIS data sources

http://nsidc.org/data/gis/other.html

National Ice Center
http://140.90.54.37/

Arctic Climatology and Meterology
http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/factors/heat_budget.html

Climate Changes Impact on Ocean Currents

http://www.climate.unibe.ch/~christof/div/fact4thc.html#3.1

http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/article_detail.cfm?article_num=666

http://www.solcomhouse.com/PolarIce.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/coldscience/2004-08-30-n-grip-main_x.htm

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/askjack/2004-01-08-answers-warming-gulf-stream_x.htm

http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~gth/netscape/authors/manabe.html

http://www.soton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2005/nov/05_204.shtml

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4485840.stm