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The Physics of Glaciers
Author | : Kurt M. Cuffey,W. S. B. Paterson |
Publsiher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 721 |
Release | : 2010-06-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780080919126 |
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The Physics of Glaciers, Fourth Edition, discusses the physical principles that underlie the behavior and characteristics of glaciers. The term glacier refers to all bodies of ice created by the accumulation of snowfall, e.g., mountain glaciers, ice caps, continental ice sheets, and ice shelves. Glaciology—the study of all forms of ice—is an interdisciplinary field encompassing physics, geology, atmospheric science, mathematics, and others. This book covers various aspects of glacier studies, including the transformation of snow to ice, grain-scale structures and ice deformation, mass exchange processes, glacial hydrology, glacier flow, and the impact of climate change. The present edition features two new chapters: “Ice Sheets and the Earth System and “Ice, Sea Level, and Contemporary Climate Change. The chapter on ice core studies has been updated from the previous version with new material. The materials on the flow of mountain glaciers, ice sheets, ice streams, and ice shelves have been combined into a single chapter entitled “The Flow of Ice Masses. Completely updated and revised, with 30% new material including climate change Accessible to students, and an essential guide for researchers Authored by preeminent glaciologists
The Physics of Glaciers
Author | : W. S. B. Paterson |
Publsiher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2017-01-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781483293738 |
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Explains the physical principles underlying the behaviour of glaciers and ice sheets. Concentrates on the major advances made in most aspects of the subject in the past 30 years with about half devoted to work done in the last 10 years i.e. since the first edition was published. The new edition is updated, expanded and in SI units
The Physics of Glaciers
Author | : W. S. B. Paterson |
Publsiher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2016-10-27 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781483287256 |
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This updated and expanded version of the second edition explains the physical principles underlying the behaviour of glaciers and ice sheets. The text has been revised in order to keep pace with the extensive developments which have occurred since 1981. A new chapter, of major interest, concentrates on the deformation of subglacial till. The book concludes with a chapter on information regarding past climate and atmospheric composition obtainable from ice cores.
The Physics of Glaciers
Author | : William S. B. Paterson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:756382993 |
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Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers
Author | : Ralf Greve,Heinz Blatter |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2009-08-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783642034152 |
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Dynamics of Ice Sheets and Glaciers presents an introduction to the dynamics and thermodynamics of flowing ice masses on Earth. Based on an outline of general continuum mechanics, the different initial-boundary-value problems for the flow of ice sheets, ice shelves, ice caps and glaciers are systematically derived. Special emphasis is put on developing hierarchies of approximations for the different systems, and suitable numerical solution techniques are discussed. A separate chapter is devoted to glacial isostasy. The book is appropriate for graduate courses in glaciology, cryospheric sciences, environmental sciences, geophysics and related fields. Standard undergraduate knowledge of mathematics (calculus, linear algebra) and physics (classical mechanics, thermodynamics) provide a sufficient background for successfully studying the text.
Glaciers and Ice Sheets in the Climate System
Author | : Andrew Fowler,Felix Ng |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2020-10-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783030425845 |
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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 after the international summer school held annually in the beautiful alpine village of Karthaus, Northern Italy, and consists of twenty chapters based on lectures from the school. They cover theory, methods, and observations, and introduce readers to essential glaciological topics such as ice-flow dynamics, polar meteorology, mass balance, ice-core analysis, paleoclimatology, remote sensing and geophysical methods, glacial isostatic adjustment, modern and past glacial fluctuations, and ice sheet reconstruction. The chapters were written by thirty-four contributing authors who are leading international authorities in their fields. The book can be used as a graduate-level textbook for a university course, and as a valuable reference guide for practising glaciologists and climate scientists.
Principles of Glacier Mechanics
Author | : Roger LeB. Hooke |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2019-12-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781108427340 |
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The principles of glacier physics are developed from basic laws in this up-to-date third edition for advanced students and researchers.
Contribution to the Physics of Glaciers
Author | : Hans Jakob Konrad Wilhelmsson Ahlmann |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1935 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:877615875 |
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