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Every book about Svalbard that two catalogues confirm, oldest first: 796 works, checked 8 November 2026.

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The ice and the climate

Works whose subject headings name ice, glaciers, permafrost, weather or the climate, or that carry the tag the ice.

Published 1879 to 2025, 38 works

Rebuilt 25 October 2026

  1. Die Metamorphosen des Polareises, 1879 No period given: ice and climate.
  2. Wetterflieger in der Arktis: Kriegserlebnisse des Flugzeugführers Rudolf Schütze, 1950 Covers 1939 to 1945: ice and climate, at Longyearbyen.
  3. Drivisen ved Svalbard 1924-1939, 1953 No period given: ice and climate, on the ice.
  4. Noen iakttagelser over isbreenes tilbakegang i Hornsund, v. Spitsbergen, 1953 No period given: ice and climate.
  5. Wettertrupp Haudegen: eine deutsche Arktisexpedition 1944/45, 1954 Covers 1939 to 1945: ice and climate.
  6. Five radiocarbon datings of post glacial shorelines in central Spitsbergen: by Rolf W. Feyling-Hanssen and Ingrid Olsson, 1960 No period given: ice and climate.
  7. Gletscherland in der Arktis, 1965 No period given: ice and climate.
  8. A comparison between the general circulation over the Svalbard area and the weather conditions at Isfjord radio, 1966 No period given: ice and climate.
  9. Svalbard: Norway in the Arctic Ocean, 1975 No period given: ice and climate.
  10. Airborne radio echo sounding of sub-polar glaciers in Spitsbergen, 1984 No period given: ice and climate.
  11. Brennpunkt Nord: værtjenestekrigen 1940-45, 1991 Covers 1900 to 1999: ice and climate.
  12. Norges isbreer, 1991 No period given: ice and climate.
  13. The depositional environment of surging sub-polar tidewater glaciers: a case study of the morphology, sedimentation and sediment properties in a surge affected marine basin outside Nordaustlandet, Northern Barents Sea, 1991 No period given: ice and climate.
  14. Earth science, 1992 No period given: ice and climate.
  15. Glacier atlas of Svalbard and Jan Mayen, 1993 No period given: ice and climate.
  16. Hopen: ishavsøy og meteorologisk stasjon: norsk-arktisk værtjeneste: den tysk-arktiske værtjenesten 1940-45, 1994 Covers 1939 to 1945: ice and climate, on Hopen.
  17. Arktisk miljø i Norden: urørt, overutnyttet, forurenset?, 1996 No period given: ice and climate.
  18. Drifting snow and snow accumulation in complex Arctic terrain: field experiments and numerical modelling, 2001 No period given: ice and climate.
  19. Hopen 2000: fangst og forskning, norsk-arktisk værtjeneste, Hopen radio, meteorologisk stasjon, 2001 No period given: ice and climate, on Hopen.
  20. Den store boken om Norge, 2004 No period given: ice and climate.
  21. Svalbard guide, 2007 No period given: ice and climate.
  22. Svalbard Spitzbergen Guide, 2007 No period given: ice and climate.
  23. Climate development in North Norway and the Svalbard region during 1900-2100, 2009 No period given: ice and climate.
  24. Effekter på folk og samfunn: klimaendringer i norsk Arktis: NorACIA delutredning 4, 2009 No period given: ice and climate.
  25. Ishavsfolk si erfaring: boka om is, isens menn, storm og forlis, 2009 No period given: ice and climate, on the ice.
  26. Kongelig polartokt, 2009 No period given: ice and climate.
  27. Status og utviklingstrekk for klimaindikatorer i norsk del av Arktis: MOSJ tolkingsrapport - klima, 2010 No period given: ice and climate.
  28. "-en sten løftet fra mitt hjerte-": en reise over Polhavet i Nansens og Frams geologiske fotefar, 2011 No period given: ice and climate, on the ice.
  29. Klimaendringer i Norge: forskernes forklaringer, 2013 No period given: ice and climate, on the ice.
  30. An Assessment of MOSJ: the state of the terrestrial environment in Svalbard, 2014 No period given: ice and climate.
  31. Hopen 2014: fangst og forskning, norsk-arktisk værtjeneste, Hopen radio, meteorologisk stasjon, 2014 No period given: ice and climate, on Hopen.
  32. Expedition Svalbard: lost views on the shorelines of economy, 2015 No period given: ice and climate.
  33. The Ice is melting: ethics in the Arctic, 2015 No period given: ice and climate, on the ice.
  34. Climate in Svalbard 2100: a knowledge base for climate adaptation, 2019 No period given: ice and climate, at Longyearbyen and on the ice.
  35. My world is melting: living with climate change in Svalbard, 2020 No period given: ice and climate, at Longyearbyen.
  36. Verda mi smeltar: å leve med klimaendringer på Svalbard, 2020 No period given: ice and climate.
  37. Drømmen om et tre: roman, 2022 No period given: ice and climate, at Longyearbyen.
  38. Arktiske mysterier: varm is og kalde fakta - forskning på Svalbard, 2025 No period given: ice and climate.