Affiliation:
1. Delhi Technological University, India
2. VISA, India
3. Kanori PG Mahila Mahavidyalaya, India
Abstract
Polar science is the study of Earth's frozen zones. It finds its application in a diversity of applications such as monitoring the effects of global warming, making weather prediction, studying the migration cycles of birds, understanding the change in climate over decades, etc. Despite its wide applicability, this field presents a diversity of challenges to the cryosphere community. In this chapter, the authors will cover the current challenges in this field and how they are being solved by researchers across the globe. They will discuss the areas of research and their applicability along with the latest and most promising research works in the field of polar sciences. The subject of polar sciences is studied widely in two dimensions. The first is the study of ice of the sea, and the other is the study of snow. To truly grasp the works done in this field, the authors would be covering these sections in detail one after another.