Glaciers and Ice Sheets in the Climate System The Karthaus Summer School Lecture Notes /
Our realisation of how profoundly glaciers and ice sheets respond to climate change and impact sea level and the environment has propelled their study to the forefront of Earth system science. Aspects of this multidisciplinary endeavour now constitute major areas of research. This book is named afte...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2021. |
| Series: | Springer Textbooks in Earth Sciences, Geography and Environment,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42584-5 |
Table of Contents:
- Flow of ice
- Thermal structure
- Basal processes
- Tidewater glaciers
- Ice shelves D ocean interaction
- Polar meteorology
- Mass balance
- Numerical methods
- Inverse modeling
- Analytic ice sheet models and climate change
- Firn
- Ice cores
- Remote sensing
- Geophysics
- Geodynamics
- Paleo-ice sheets
- Geomorphology
- Glacier fluctuations
- Tropical glaciers
- Historical glaciology.