BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this article: Geographical Aspects of Health and Disease in India . Rais Akhtar and A.T.A. Learmonth , eds . Antarctic Treaty System: An Assessment . Proceedings of a Workshop at Beardmore South Field Camp, Antarctica. American Electoral Mosaics . J. Clark Archer and Fred M. Shelley . Kompas op Suidwes-Afrika/Namibie . W.S. Barnard , ed . Jerusalem in the 19th Century: The Old City . Yehoshua Ben -Arieh . The World as a Total System . Kenneth E. Boulding . A Social History of Housing 1815–1985, Second Ed . John Burnett . Human Migration . W.A.V. Clark . Regional Population Projection Models . Andrei Rogers . The State of Population Theory: Forward from Malthus . David Coleman and Roger Schofield , eds . Imagining Tomorrow: History, Technology and the American Future . Joseph C. Corn , ed. Swidden Agriculture in Indonesia: The Subsistence Strategies of the Kalimantan Kantú . Michael R. Dove . Glacial Geologic Processes . David Drewry . Physics of Desertification . Farouk El -Baz and M.H.A. Hassan , eds . Housing the Homeless . Jon Erickson and Charles Wilhelm , eds . Settlement Patterns in Missouri: A Study of Population Origins, with a Wall Map . Russel L. Gerlach . Desert Development: Man and Technology in Sparselands . Yehuda Gradus , ed . Nuclear Winter. The Evidence and Risks . Owen Greene , Ian Percival and Irene Ridge . The Take-off of Suburbia and the Crisis of the Central City . Günter Heinritz and Elisabeth Lichtenberger , eds . Regional Input-Output Analysis . Geoffrey J. D. Hewings . Spatial Transportation Modeling . Christian Werner . The Atlas of Georgia . Thomas W. Hodler and Howard A. Schretter , eds . Latin America. 5th ed . Preston E. James and C.W. Minkel . Applied Remote Sensing . C.P. Lo . Localities, Class, and Gender . The Lancaster Regionalism Group . Urban Social Movements: The City after Castells . Stuart Lowe . Politics and Method . Doreen Massey and Richard Meegan , eds . Land Use . A. S. Mather . The Kingdom of Coal . Donald L. Miller and Richard E. Sharpless . The Presidio and Militia on the Northern Frontier of New Spain, A Documentary History, Vol. 1: 1570–1700 . Thomas H. Naylor and Charles W. Polzer , S.J., comps . and eds . Nuclear Power: Siting and Safety . Stan Openshaw . The Central African Republic: The Continent's Hidden Heart . Thomas O'Toole . Environmental and Dynamic Geomorphology . Márton Pécsi , ed . Remote Sensing Principles and Interpretation . Floyd F. Sabins , Jr . Acid Rain and Friendly Neighbors: The Policy Dispute between Canada and the United States . Jurgen Schmandt and Hilliard Roderick , eds . Earth's Changing Surface: An Introduction to Geomorphology . M.J. Selby . International Migration: The Female Experience . Rita J. Simon and Caroline B. Brettell , eds . On Geography and Its History . D.R. Stoddart . Transportation Networks: A Quantitative Approach . D. Teodorovic . Processes in Physical Geography . R.D. Thompson , A.M. Mannion , C.W. Mitchell , M. Parry , J.R.G. Townshend . Imaging Radar for Resources Surveys . J.W. Trevett . Dominance and Affection: The Making of Pets . Yi -Fu Tuan . Capturing the Horizon. The Historical Geography of Transportation since the Transportation Revolution of the Sixteenth Century . James E. Vance , Jr . Nations at Risk: The Impact of the Computer Revolution . Edward Yourdon .     

基于RS与GIS的冰川变化研究--青藏高原北侧新青峰与马兰冰帽变化的再评估

应用遥感(RS)与地理信息系统(GIS)技术, 分析了位于青藏高原东北部, 可可西里地区、昆仑山脉中段的新青峰和马兰冰帽近30 a来的冰川变化.1971-2000年间新青峰冰帽总面积呈减小变化, 马兰冰帽面积有所增加;结合以往研究结果, 发现新青峰冰帽面积变化在1979年前后为突变点, 1979年前冰帽总体面积扩大, 之后面积迅速减小, 期间经历了1989-1994年相对稳定的时期. 进一步分析新青峰冰帽东南侧新青峰冰川和西北侧西新青峰冰川长度变化过程, 发现新青峰冰帽面积变化在很大程度上取决于这两条冰川的变化. 研究时段内两条冰川末端进退变化有较大差异, 西新青峰冰川在1971-1976和1994年之后为退缩期, 1976-1994年间为前进, 而新青峰冰川则有所不同, 该冰川1971年以来一直处于退缩之中, 但不同时段退缩速率不同, 且1994年后有加速退缩的趋势. 根据马兰冰帽冰芯δ18 O记录所反映的夏季气温变化, 近50 a来研究区在1976年之前为相对高温期, 之后为相对低温期, 两冰川不同的长度变化趋势可能与两冰川对气候变化具有不同的动力响应特征有关.根据两条冰川冰面地形特征分析认为, 受地形条件制约, 两条冰川可能具有不同的冰川表面物质平衡梯度, 这也可能是两冰川具有不同的动力响应特征的影响要素之一.