Ebook: Naturalist's Guide to the Arctic

Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Sky -- 1.1 The Land of the Midnight Sun -- 1.2 What about the Midday Moon? -- 1.3 A Compass near the Magnetic Pole -- 1.4 The Geomagnetic Pole -- 1.5 The Aurora Borealis, or ""Northern Lights"" -- 2. Climate and Atmosphere -- 2.1 The Arctic Climate -- 2.2 The Seasons -- 2.3 The Climate near the Ground -- 2.4 Arctic Mirages -- 2.5 The Air Made Visible -- 3. Terrain -- 3.1 Ice Caps and Glaciers -- 3.2 Permafrost -- 3.3 Traces of the Ice Age -- 3.4 Tundra Polygons -- 3.5 Pingos -- 3.6 Peat: Peat Mounds, Palsas, and Peat Plateaus -- 3.7 Tundra Hummocks.