The Physics of GlaciersAcademic Press, 2010/06/18 - 704 ページ 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.
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1 Overview and Regimes | 91 |
2 Surface Ablation and Energy Budget | 137 |
Chapter 6 Glacial Hydrology | 175 |
Chapter 7 Basal Slip | 223 |
Chapter 8 The Flow of Ice Masses | 285 |
Chapter 11 Reaction of Glaciers to Environmental Changes | 453 |
Chapter 12 Glacier Surges | 511 |
Chapter 13 Ice Sheets and the Earth System | 541 |
Chapter 14 Ice Sea Level and Contemporary Climate Change | 575 |
Chapter 15 Ice Core Studies | 611 |
A Primer on Stress and Strain | 675 |
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Color Plates | 701 |
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ablation zone accumulation rate accumulation zone albedo analysis Antarctic Ice atmospheric average basal basal drag basal slip bedrock borehole calculated calving cavities changes climate components compression creep relation crevasses decreases density depends depth deviatoric drainage driving stress effective pressure elevation Equation fabric factor Figure firn flux force glacier bed glacier flow glacier surface gradient grain Greenland Ice Sheet heat Holocene horizontal ice caps ice core ice flow ice shelf ice streams ice thickness increases isotopic Kamb layers longitudinal margins mass balance measured melting point meltwater mountain glaciers observed occurs parameters processes radiation regions retreat Section sediment shear stress shelves shows simple shear Siple Coast sliding snow snowfall specific balance strain rate subglacial surface balance surge surging glaciers temperate glaciers temperature terminus thinning typical valley variations varies vertical viscosity warming water pressure West Antarctica Whillans Whillans Ice Stream